Granny's Dancing on the Table
Directed by:
Hanna SköldScreenplay:
Hanna SköldCinematography:
Ita Zbroniec-ZajtComposer:
Giorgio GiampàVOD (1)
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Eini (Blanka Engström) is a young girl who lives deep in the Swedish forests with her father (Lennart Jähkel). First seen berating his daughter for accidentally breaking a glass and then trying to hide the evidence, Eini's father is a fierce control freak and religious zealot who regularly and ritualistically counts up the household's meagre possessions as a means of discovering Eini's infractions of his tyrannical rules. The deep roots of this family psychosis are revealed through a parallel narrative, related through animated sequences that depict the religiously inspired abuse of the women of Eini's family. This dreadful tradition dates back to Eini's grandmother, who becomes a figure of almost mythic import for Eini - both as a symbol of freedom, and as the reason for the girl's suffering in the present. (Toronto International Film Festival)
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This depressing bit of psycho festival fare is unnecessary, gratuitous and obsessed with its own form. Film school professors might rejoice if this was a graduate’s film, but I as a moviegoer was far from happy.
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