'Fyra år till' ('Four More Years') by Tova Magnusson:
We have now seen this film and it was a rather harmless homoerotic story about a succesful liberal Swedish politician, who is on the verge of becoming the next prime minister of Sweden. Unfortunately it almost ends with him being on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Being brought up in a religious, baptist home, he is rather conservative when it comes to some issues concerning sex and not least concerning his own sexual preferences.
He meets a social democratic politician and falls in love with him, this causing him moral problems and not least problems connected to his political career. Firstly, having an affair with a man and secondly, this man being a political opponent.
To get out of the closet or not get out of the closet, that is the question.
In general one can say that it's a film with a theme being somewhat obsolete with a harmless mise-en-scène and impossible to export to other countries as the story to a great extent is based in a very 'Swedish' context, if I may put it that way.
One can note that the leading actor - Björn Kjellman - has a hair cut reminding us of former prime minister Olof Palme and a style in his acting somewhat reminding of the Swedish foreign minister (and former prime minister) Carl Bildt.
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