National Review, June 19th, 1987
My Life as a Dog
FOR ALL ITS earnestness, though,River's Edge is inferior to a Swedish film about adolescence, My Life as a Dog, by Lasse Hallstrom from an autobiographical novel by Reidar Jonsson (who collaborated on the script), exquisitely shot by Bo Widerberg's cameraman, Jorgen Persson. It tells of 12-year-old Ingemar, whose father is loading bananas in South America, mother is dying of TB, older brother bullies him, and dog is taken away from him. Ingemar hates being sent to rusticate in a southern-Swedish village with a sweet simpleton of an uncle, but consoles himself with gazing at...
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