Friday, April 10, 2009
Now You See It
I don't think the trailer for 'Let The Right One In,' which I posted on Sunday, does this other-wordly Swedish film justice. Superbly written, acted, and filmed, it's a story about lonely pre-teens in a wintry suburban landscape. I can recall very few films that so vividly captured being 12 - among them are masterpieces such as 'Ice Storm,' 'Machuca,' and 'Welcome To The Dollhouse.'
A near-albino blond 12-year-old boy (Kare Hedebrant, right), friendless, bullied at school, makes a connection to the dark-haired girl next door. She's also 12, but, being a vampire, she's been 12 for a very, very long time. Why don't you just watch a few clips? Just trust me on this!
'Let The Right One In' too ethereal and touching to be pigeonholed as a vampire movie......but if you do like a good scare, the realism of this movie makes the scary parts more surprising and, hence, more frightening.
It's based on the Swedish 2004 best-seller by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who is well on his way to being his country's Stephen King, in a very Swedish way, of course..
Here's another clip:
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