Underplayed Gems

Four Shades of Brown (2004)

Four Shades of Brown poster
Original title
Fyra nyanser av brunt
Directed by
Tomas Alfredson
Genre
anthology film, comedy drama, black comedy film
Country
Sweden
Length
1 season, 4 episodes
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This Swedish film weaves together four separate stories about different fathers dealing with life's tragedies. Each story explores the struggles and absurdities of parenthood through a darkly humorous lens.

darkly comicmelancholictragicomicslow-burnbittersweetunderstatedwrycharacter-driven

What happens

Four Shades of Brown (Swedish: Fyra nyanser av brunt) is a 2004 Swedish film written by the comedy group Killinggänget and directed by their member Tomas Alfredson. The film stars Robert Gustafsson, Johan Rheborg, Henrik Schyffert, Jonas Inde, Maria Kulle and Ulf Brunnberg. The film consists of four interwoven stories about life tragedies, each related to fatherhood as the common theme. It was produced by Sveriges Television. The film won four Guldbagge Awards including Best Director and Best Actor for Gustafsson. In 2005 it was aired on television as four mid-length television films, which had been reedited with additional footage. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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