As a matter of fact, I got annoyed and bored watching this film. Perhaps the 31 years that have passed since it came out do not do justice with the film, which apparently was very well received back then.
I found it to sketchy when it came to dialogs - they are illogical and not natural, and in too many scenes there is nothing but images of what could be described as mild kitsch and nothing more.
The acting is sometimes horrific. The parents sometimes act in ways that I cannot described in any other way but `crazy'. If Andersson wanted to show unstable adults around emotionally immature kids - then he has, but the scenes at the Kräftskiva (crayfish parties) are so weird as far as the human emotions displayed, that it makes little sense and still does not show the surrealist or absurd undertones that were probably what Andersson wanted to show.
The 70's look is a real one - it was shot in the 70's, of course, and that is indeed a source of some enjoyment. But personally I found the film to be quite outdated and not too interesting as a whole.
I found it to sketchy when it came to dialogs - they are illogical and not natural, and in too many scenes there is nothing but images of what could be described as mild kitsch and nothing more.
The acting is sometimes horrific. The parents sometimes act in ways that I cannot described in any other way but `crazy'. If Andersson wanted to show unstable adults around emotionally immature kids - then he has, but the scenes at the Kräftskiva (crayfish parties) are so weird as far as the human emotions displayed, that it makes little sense and still does not show the surrealist or absurd undertones that were probably what Andersson wanted to show.
The 70's look is a real one - it was shot in the 70's, of course, and that is indeed a source of some enjoyment. But personally I found the film to be quite outdated and not too interesting as a whole.