This is a very good movie. The best thing is that it can both be watched only as a very good comedy/relation drama in Christmas time, AND as an important statement about family values - or NON-family values... in current times.
This movie tackles such issues as divorces, people who continue to be friends with their (several) ex-partners, women who have children with several men, adoption, artificial insemination, etc.. All these issues have become political correct in Sweden, as - I suppose - most of the Western world. But this movie, through the form of comedy and drama, shows the reality behind it all. How bad the children feel, and how strange and unpleasant relations become also between the adults...
I love this film, because it masquerades as a light-hearted comedy with many famous actors, which makes Swedish National Television broadcast it at some time during the Christmas vacation every year... At the same time as it makes people THINK about important things that have gone wrong in our society, and that one normally is not allowed to object against.
A warning, though: do not watch this in company of children, as it contains both nudity, sex, and foul language!
This movie tackles such issues as divorces, people who continue to be friends with their (several) ex-partners, women who have children with several men, adoption, artificial insemination, etc.. All these issues have become political correct in Sweden, as - I suppose - most of the Western world. But this movie, through the form of comedy and drama, shows the reality behind it all. How bad the children feel, and how strange and unpleasant relations become also between the adults...
I love this film, because it masquerades as a light-hearted comedy with many famous actors, which makes Swedish National Television broadcast it at some time during the Christmas vacation every year... At the same time as it makes people THINK about important things that have gone wrong in our society, and that one normally is not allowed to object against.
A warning, though: do not watch this in company of children, as it contains both nudity, sex, and foul language!