Enough said! It's a different take on the Romeo & Juliet kind of story. It's very open and childlike, with elements of history, love and comedy.
sharehi ellingsn,
I think few people know of this gem. As far as I am concerned it is the best children movie ever made. It has so much love and joy in it (but also scary moments) that I can still watch it and enjoy it very much, although I'm well past the age the movie was intended for!
I saw this movie yesterday, because I had notning to do. It's spring and I thought that I wanted to watch something with alot of nature. It was a pretty long time since I saw it. So when I saw it yesterday I realized what a great movie it is. It has become one of my favorite movies.
Ut! Alla mansfolk! Ni ställer inte till annat än sattyg! - Lovisshare
Jag älskar denna filmen, så vacker...
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"This is me for forever, One of the lost ones"
"Walk the dark path, Sleep with angels"
Excellent "familY" movie.
I watched it on late night cable and I totally enjoyed it.
It's heavily underrated but deserves more recognition.
"Hate is baggage, life's too short to be pissed off all the time".
I wouldn't say underrated, it's widely unknown about and I don't see many complaints from those that have seen it. I remember watching it as a kid and I just watched it again. Lots of fun, Allan Edwall stuck out as being particularily good as the old man(skalle-per).
shareTotally Agree! Very good movie..
Good acting, never gets boring.. and very nice naturepictures, that's almost what i love the most.. all that fine nature...
When I was little I watched this move every single day so I guess I have seen it about 300 times. (Beat that!) But I did not dare watching the beginning alone. The thounderstorm and the fire was so scary...
shareI watched it every day as well, when I was young. But I havenT for like 10 years. ANd I watched it again yesterday, all the childhood memories came back to me. That movie is just great. I think it definetely is the best childhood movie ever made. I recommand to everyone ;)
shareYeah great movie. the best children movie along whit ”Resan till Melonia” and ”the never ending story”.
shareYeah, this is one of my favourite movies too. And when it comes to movies for children it's my first choice. Börje Ahlstedt (Mattis) is a great actor, the whole cast was great. Too bad Hanna Zetterberg (Ronja) didn't star in any more movies after this one. Today I was in a second hand store and I found a cd where Astrid Lindgren (the author) reads along with the audio from the movie. I had it as a tape growing up and it just makes me calm and feel safe to listen to her voice. (Ronja Rövardotter is originally a childrens book, for those of you who didn't know that.)
I also have two songs that I actually listen to in the car sometimes. The robbers song and the mothers wolf-song. When something is great, it's great - I don't care if it's meant for children.
Too bad Ronja Rövardotter isn't available in english subtitles. It should be. It's part of swedish filmhistory. I mean, Pippi Långstrump (Pippi Longstocking) is made for the english-speaking audience, so why not Ronja Rövardotter?
nattyxne, I think the nudity in this film would be ... "Politically Incorrect" for English speaking audiences! I don't know if that is the 'official' reason, but knowing what people are like...
shareHi,
yes; how could this movie possibly become a success e.g. in the US, where full male frontal nudity (which is contained in the movie) would result in a R rating. There's not much of a target audience for an R-rated children's movie.
I watched the movie in 1985 when I was 7, and it certainly didn't traumatize me ;), and I'd definitely let my kids watch it. I watched it again today, 20 years later, and although I had seen it only once before, I still remembered some scenes.
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Till
Could they not just cut around those scenes? And are there not a difference between nudity for the sake of nudity, and nudity that is in a story as a part of the story? Or they just R-rate everything? One can absolutley imagine that it was like that back then. People took "snowbaths" in the nude, and nudity was more natural then.
I don't know. Just an idea.
Well, that particular scene isn't important to the story, I think, so if it's all that it takes to make hypocrytical americans show it to their children, it's a sacrifice worth making, since the movie is so excellent.
Ps. And it turns out, that we gave the movie an age limit of 7. That means 7-years-olds can watch it alone in a theater, and that even younger children can watch it with a grown-up. So Americans wanting to give it a R-rating is just absurd.
I don't agree with any cutting of the movie. Movie, this or any else, should be presented the way it was ment to be or not at all.
And there are double standards in American rating system. If movie comes from Europe it is very likely it will be R rated for any reason they can imagine. If European countries tried to do the same, American would be screaming it is protectionism. But even in American movies you can see double standard, expensive movies from big studios can easily go with lower rating, probably to enable the return of invested money that is usually impossible to imagine, let alone achieve in European productions.
So, while European movies can get R for few unpolite words, talking about divorce, single parenthood, affairs and God save us from hints of nudity, listen to the language used in PG rated Hollywood blockbusters, and notice their interpersonal relations.
My kids were different age when they watched Ronja. I didn't notice any disorders in their behaving and growing up caused by any content of this movie. It didn't make them violent, greedy, envious. That is why USA doesn't want it for their kids. It offers wrong messages and moral values than ordinary American movie.
But who cares. As the first poster said, "I love this movie". And leave it unchanged for all of us who feel that way.
ni är sjuka
shareSorry... this is not the first time someone is answering me in Swedish (or at least I think it is Swedish). But the fact that I love Swedish movies and often post comments on their boards doesn't mean I'm from Sweden myself. On the contrary, I live far away and don't know a single word of Swedish language.
shareI think that the nudity issue is a cultural thing. When I lived in the US anything including nudity was deemed of sexual nature. In Sweden people differ between sexual nudity and "natural" nudity. Like if Mattis had been nude together with Lovis that would have indicated something sexual. But there is nothing sexual about him and the robbers taking a bath in the snow, or the children going swimming. You can be completely naked without being in a sexual situation, which is why I think it's sad that scenes like the ones in the movie would result in an R rating. I for one don't want my children to grow up believing that nudity is something dirty and bad, and have them ashamed of their bodies.
I don't know if you'll ever read this, but the translation of Abangelines "ni är sjuka" is: "You are sick". Not very nice, but there you have it.
/Nattyxne.
Thanks. I guessed it could be something not very friendly, and few months ago a guy from Sweden that I had e-contact with confirmed it (but without exact translation). Now I have my diagnosis complete. Isn't it remarkable how Abangeline identified my status from few sentences?
shareHe didn't just mean you. He meant "you guys are sick".
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That doesn't make me feel any better. Jost the opposite. If I were a problem, no matter, I am not important, and I'm used to be disliked.
But if someone means that everyone who loves this movie that promotes love and peace is sick... I still believe in people and humanity and future too much not to be bothered and disturbed by that.
I haven't seen the movie, so I'm not sure what the scene of nudity is like, but I doubt it would get an R rating here in America. One of my favorite family films, The Secret of Roan Inish, is rated PG and features full frontal nudity of a boy, but he is only about 5. I guess it's different if the boy is older. I don't know.
shareWell, the robbers, and they are all grown men, are thrown out into the snow butt naked, so they can wash themselves in the snow. You see them totally naked from the front. But I sure don't think it deserves an R-rating anyway.
Yes, it's true! IMDB has reached Sweden!
my children and I saw this movie in a film festival in NY, the girls had read the book and loved it. The frontal nudity was there, it was unrated. Most people did not go becuase it had subtitles, too much reading for kids and adults. It did not harm my kids. They understood that people take baths naked and laughed at the antics of the robbers. I find the nudity rules to be stupid, specially when they do not show male frontal nudity or give it an NC-17 rating. These are the same people who do not want kids to go to museum trips where nude statues are shown. In my book, they are the sick ones. There is another movie about two brothers, one is sick and they keep on living by dreaming up new adventures as they are close to dying. It is also excellent.
share"There is another movie about two brothers, one is sick and they keep on living by dreaming up new adventures as they are close to dying. It is also excellent."
Do you mean this one? This is one is based on a novel by Astrid Lindgren as well. About the rest of your post, I agree with you. People should relax some times.
Yes, it's true! IMDB has reached Sweden!
I agree with you in every aspect. I have been watching this film since I was 2 years old, reguarly, the nudity has never disturbed me in any way, on the contrary I think. Nudity like in Ronja Rövardotter is natrual and must be al right for any child to see.
About the other Astrid Lindgren movie you talk about - you must mean Bröderna Lejonhjärta (The Lionheart brothers?). Do you have that one in the US?
I would actually recomend all Astrid Lindgren's movies and books for your daughters! There is no author like her, she has given my childhood a face and voice. She understands children and children's fantasy and feelings better than any other childbook auther.
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