Dear Alice
{{Short description|2010 Swedish drama film}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Dear Alice
| image = Dear Alice.jpg
| director = Othman Karim
| producer = Malin Holmberg-Karim
Hans Lönnerheden
| writer = Othman Karim
Grace Maharaj-Eriksson
| starring = Danny Glover
Tuva Novotny
Stefan Sauk
Regina Lund
Ulf Brunnberg
Peter Gardiner
Moses Said
| cinematography = Esa Vuorinen
| editing = Katarina Duske
Darek Hodor
| distributor = Nordisk Film
| budget =
| released = {{Film date|df=y|2010|7|7}}
| runtime = 120 minutes
| country = Sweden
| language = Swedish
English
}}
Dear Alice ({{langx|sv|För kärleken}}) is a 2010 Swedish drama film directed by Othman Karim starring Danny Glover, Tuva Novotny and Peter Gardiner. The film is written by Karim and Grace Maharaj-Eriksson.{{cite web|url=http://www.sfi.se/en-gb/Swedish-film-database/Item/?type=MOVIE&itemid=67803 |title=Dear Alice (2010) |publisher=Sfi.se |date=2010-07-09 |access-date=2013-10-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019040933/http://www.sfi.se/en-gb/Swedish-film-database/Item/?type=MOVIE&itemid=67803 |archive-date=2013-10-19 }}
Dear Alice competed at the 2010 Moscow Film Festival.{{Citation needed|date=June 2021}}
Plot
Very different lives, becomes interweaved during what seems like an ordinary day. Franzis Namazi (Danny Glover) is a newly arrived immigrant from Gambia to Sweden.{{cite web|url=http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/filmrecensioner/hogt-spel-med-karlek-som-insats-1.1134924 |access-date=July 12, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100711034811/http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/filmrecensioner/hogt-spel-med-karlek-som-insats-1.1134924 |archive-date=July 11, 2010 |title="För kärleken" - DN.se }} He is about to give up on his little store selling African art. Karin Carlsson-Said (Tuva Novotny){{cite news|author= |url=http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/nyheter/realistiskt-karleksdrama_4957385.svd |title=Realistiskt kärleksdrama | Kultur | SvD |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |language=sv |publisher=Svd.se |date=2010-07-06 |access-date=2013-10-17|last1=Svensson |first1=Karin }} is a lawyer who is about to enter a new important step in her career as a lawyer. Her husband Moses (Peter Gardiner) must send money to his hospitalized father in Uganda, but there are problems with the transaction and has issues with keeping up his work as a Social Worker. Bosse (Ulf Brunnberg) is the TV star who finds out he has been fired off his own show and finds his young wife with another man, Håkan (Stefan Sauk) is a charming celebrity with an alcohol problem and now once again needs help from his lawyer Karin Carlsson-Said.{{cite web|url=http://www.expressen.se/noje/recensioner/film/1.2058849/for-karleken-kolliderande-manniskooden |title=För kärleken - kolliderande människoöden | Film | Expressen Nöje | Nöjesnyheter Musiknyheter Filmnyheter |publisher=Expressen.se |date=2010-07-09 |access-date=2013-10-17}}{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/film/recensioner/article7433982.ab |title=Karim har gjort en svensk 'Short cuts' | Film - Recensioner | Film | Nöjesbladet | Aftonbladet |publisher=Aftonbladet.se |date=2010-07-09 |access-date=2013-10-17}}
Cast
- Danny Glover as Franzis Namazi
- Tuva Novotny as Karin Carlsson-Said
- Stefan Sauk as Håkan Pettersson
- Regina Lund as Elisabeth Krantz
- Ulf Brunnberg as Bosse Krantz
- Peter Gardiner as Moses Said
- Meta Velander as Elsa
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|1437354}}
- {{Rotten Tomatoes|for_karleken}}
- {{Sfdb title}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120304124936/http://english.ruvr.ru/rtvideo/2010/06/21/video_10332632.html Moscow Film Festival]
Category:2010s Swedish-language films
Category:English-language Swedish films
Category:2010s English-language films
Category:2010 multilingual films