The Bottom Line
Ulf Malmros "Slim Susie" is a Swedish film you rarely see: dark, stylish and consistently funny. No Scandinavian Dogme doom and gloom here.
Pros
- A Swedish comedy with a hip David Lynch feel
- Bold visual style
- Dark humor
- Excellent soundtrack
Cons
- None. Sex, drugs, and depraved Swedes are not a bad thing.
Description
- A cross between "Pulp Fiction," "Twin Peaks" and "Dude Where's My Car."
- Starring: Tuva Novotny, Jonas Rimeika, Kjell Bergqvist, Björn Starrin, Malin Morgan, Lotta Tejle.
- Directed by Ulf Malmros.
- Studio: Home Vision Entertainment.
- Release Date: July 19, 2005.
- Runtime: 101 min.
- Making-of documentary.
- Deleted scenes.
- Swedish with English subtitles.
Guide Review - Slim Susie
When beauty queen Susie (Tuva Novotny) disappears from her small town, her older brother returns from Stockholm (Jonas Rimeika) to discover the whereabouts of his sweet little sister--to discover she is not the girl he left behind.
No one in this town is normal: not the corrupt police officer or the mild mannered video clerk. And certainly not Grits, the heroin addict movie buff who befriends a despairing Susie in the supermarket. As in David Lynch's "Twin Peaks," everyone is a freak.
"Slim Susie" is a skillful mix of genres: teen comedy and hipster crime. Starting from the end and looping back to the beginning, Ulf Malmros's film keeps your attention with suprise after suprise.
