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Like It Never Was Before

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A touching drama about a family who visits a beach resort. The father (Rune Runeberg) is suffering from mid life crisis and becomes enchanted by a young employee of the resort who later awakens emotions that the father never really explored. The resulting friendship threatens to alienate the family. This film is an enchanting and disturbing look at freespirited adolescence and male mid life crisis. Guaranteed to be enjoyed by all.

Odd Swedish film about middle-aged husband (Loa Falkman) trapped in an unhappy marriage and a dead-end job, who takes his family to a seaside resort. There he meets and is captivated by a mysterious, free-spirited young man (Simon Norrthon).

This is apparently a movie made for television in the mid-90's. But it looks and feels like something from the mid-70's, with poor production values.

This is one of those movies I wanted very much to like. The story is intriguing. (Is the young man really human or some sort of supernatural being?) Unfortunately the script doesn't do the idea justice. But an even bigger problem is the main character. As played by Falkman, he is completely uninteresting and unimpressive.

The best thing (and maybe the only really good thing) about the movie is the presence of Norrthon as the enigmatic young man. It is easy to see why anyone--male or female--would become besotted by such an unconventional, handsome young man. But why he would be infatuated with Falkman is incomprehensible. Unless, of course, he is some sort of incarnate spirit sent to teach the man to be bold enough to seize life and find happiness before it is too late.

Lifeless and unimaginative, with a better script and better actors (or at least better characters), this one could have been a winner. As it is it gets a couple of stars for Norrthon's performance. Too bad.

the movie is older and the quality is terrible
cd R bad quality and the history doesnt make any sence
an onder man in love to another older man, whats the big deal about that?
I got the movie and I hate it
please! dont waste your money with something like that
bad movie and it was good over the 70"s
today its just a movie with no history at all