A touching documentary family drama about four stubborn brothers—a story about legacy, dreams, and the difficulty of restoring a bond that was broken
Any cinephile knows Swedish director Roy Andersson, the winner of the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion for the movie "A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence". Only the most hardcore fans of Scandinavian TV series will recall the name of his younger brother, Kjell-Åke Andersson. The other two younger brothers aren’t even mentioned on Wikipedia: Leif lives on a disability pension, and Ronny was homeless and died of drug overdose in 2012. The last time the three surviving Andersson brothers saw each other in person was at Ronny’s funeral—the men are so stubborn that they still refuse to say a word to one another. Leif’s daughter, debutante director Johanna Berhardson, decides to make a documentary about her father and uncles, hoping to reunite the brothers for at least one happy occasion. Interviewing Roy, Kjell, and Leif and interweaving their stories with archival footage of Ronny, she creates a tender, touching, and inspiring portrait of a family whose members have gone down drastically different paths despite a common background, and alcohol played no small part in their separation.
Original language: Swedish Subtitles: Belarusian | English