A Handful of Love and Bled number one

"A Handful of Love" (En handfull kärlek) by Vilgot Sjöman is a movie about the problems with poverty and unemployment in Sweden during the initial years of the 1900:s and especially 1909 with the big General Strike in Sweden.
Allt this happened during the years of consolidation of the Social Democratic Party prior to the times when they became really influential.

We are also displayed the great conflicts between the military and the workers and how wealthy businessmen became even richer thanks to these social problems.
Gradually we become aware of a change in the workers loyalties and the development of political pragmatism:
They become more and more 'bourgeois' and connections between the 'upper class' and the working class on individual level was legio, though not officially recognized of course, as this would perturb the official historical writing as both 'sides' have depicted it.

I liked the movie and especially the acting with no exaggerations making it quite realistic. IMDb only gives it 5,2 out of 10 but I rank it higher.

CineFrançais and the movie Bled number One by Rabah Ameur Zaïmeche.

A film about Algeria and the conflicts between old traditions, culturally, religiously and socially as they are exposed in the life in a little village and the 'modern' way of life without the historical connotations.

A man and a woman living in Paris for many years for different reasons individually and with no special connection between them, one day turns back to their home village.
There they confront the problems with narrowmindedness and intolerance.
The man having spent some years in prison in France and the woman having left her husband with whom she lives without loving him.

The movie tries to tell the story in a more documentary way with long parts with no dialogue and 'small talk' between people.
A group of young men depicting themselves as 'true muslims' have created a civil citizen movement group teaching the 'right understanding' of the Koran and punishing them who do not live after the rules they have decided is the correct teaching.

The movie lacks originality - a fresh approach. We have seen this way of making a movie before and the theme is dated.

Bled number one - Bande Annonce - Vost FR
envoyé par _Caprice_. - Les dernières bandes annonces en ligne.

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