Om jag vänder mig om (Daybreak) (2003)

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Rickard's best friend's wife, is pregnant with his child. A painful night ensues.Anita, whose husband Olof left her three years earlier for a much younger woman,decides to pay him and his new wife, Petra, a surprise visit as she has never cometo terms with his betrayal after 26 years of marriage.… More Rickard's best friend's wife, is pregnant with his child. A painful night ensues.Anita, whose husband Olof left her three years earlier for a much younger woman,decides to pay him and his new wife, Petra, a surprise visit as she has never cometo terms with his betrayal after 26 years of marriage. Anders, a bricklayer worksday and night to provide for his wife and daughter. An elderly couple hire him toseal up their house from the outside world and he gets involved in their emotionalproblems. He comes to the realisation that his family is more important than hisjob.

Rating, Runtime: R, 1 hr. 48 min.
Directed By: Björn Runge
Written By: Björn Runge, Bjorn Runge
Genres: Art House & International, Drama

In Theaters: Nov 14, 2003 Wide
Studio: Newmarket Films

Critic Reviews

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
[A] difficult but ultimately rewarding film.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Involving and sometimes comically bleak but never fully convincing as drama.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Vituperation can be cleansing, but only in smaller doses than the ones offered up here.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
The movie is by turns darkly funny, grotesquely contentious and luminously familial.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
The Swedes just about have a patent on unrelenting dissections of marital discord.
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Though Daybreak boasts a couple of minor insights and a compelling performance from Pernilla August, only the masochistically inclined will consider them sufficient reward.
Blake French, Filmcritic.com
holds the audience at an uncomfortable distance.
Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall
Has a lot to say about urban life, and it's beautifully filmed and acted. But it's so relentlessly miserable and serious that it's not easy to watch.
Matthew Turner, ViewLondon
In short, fans of bleak Scandinavian drama are in for something of a treat.
Andy Klein, Los Angeles CityBeat
There is very little wrong here - the performances are uniformly strong - but there is very little to justify the time, either
, E! Online
There isn't enough Zoloft on earth to sop up the weeping and gnashing of teeth. But the performances are good.
Kim Morgan, L.A. Weekly
We don't really care about these people -- we just want someone to make them stop.
Ken Fox, TV Guide's Movie Guide
Always interesting in its execution, but disappointingly pat in its resolution.
Kent Turner, Film-Forward.com
The film's resolutions are either too facile or too vague.

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[font=Century Gothic]"Daybreak" is a movie that consists of three storylines about the fragility of family that almost intersect:[/font] [font=Century Gothic]1. Richard(Jakob Eklund), a heart surgeon, is not having a good day. First, he learns that he did not get the job he… More
[font=Century Gothic]"Daybreak" is a movie that consists of three storylines about the fragility of family that almost intersect:[/font] [font=Century Gothic]1. Richard(Jakob Eklund), a heart surgeon, is not having a good day. First, he learns that he did not get the job he was expecting.(To make matters worse, he has already sold his family's home.) Then, his mistress, Sofie(Marie Richardson), tells him that she is pregnant...[/font] [font=Century Gothic]2. Anita(Ann Petren), who is still bitter three years later about her husband of twenty-six years leaving her for a much younger woman, is admitted to the hospital with chest pains and is released. Anita sells her medication and swaps some of it for a stun gun...[/font] [font=Century Gothic]3. Mats(Leif Andree) is a bricklayer who works mostly under the table to support his family. After having been stiffed on his latest job, he gets a lucrative offer from an older couple(Ingvar Hirdvall & Monika Lindstrom). Afraid of high crime in the neighborhood and after a home invasion, they ask Mats to wall up all of their windows...[/font] [font=Century Gothic]"Daybreak" is a pretty good movie but would have been better if the characters had cut down on the screaming and the confrontations had been handled with a bit of subtlety which only occurs towards the end. Of all the storylines, the third is by far the best because it is the most interesting and has the most to say.[/font]