"Therapy" is a film about ordinary people and the extraordinary situations they find themselves in. The middle-aged couple is going through a crisis: Paradise is constantly depressed, he has not been working for some time, and his wife Ylva is tired of such a situation. She decides to hire a specialist therapist who offers treatment in a remote village. Only after the threat of divorce does Paradise agree to embark on a journey. It soon becomes clear that the methods of the young "doctor" are really unusual. Strange yoga, constant humiliation, difficult tasks. One of the remaining wives in town enjoys imaginary freedom, but in the end, she still gets upset when she receives a call from the treatment site. And Paradise eventually finds the strength to take revenge.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 23 min.
- Country, year
- Sweden, 2009
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Swedish
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- N/A
Credits
- Director
- Johan Jonason
- Screenplay
- Johan Jonason
- Cinematography
- Simon Pramsten
- Music
- Axel Boman, Fredrik Fahlman
- Cast
- Björn Andersson, Eva Fritjofsson, Emil Johnsen
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Director
Johan Jonason
Johan Jonason was born in Stockholm. He began making films while still studying at the London Academy of Arts. In 2003, with the film The Ugly Child, he won a 1-kilometer film at the Stockholm International Film Festival and was nominated for the Swedish National Film Award. "Therapy" is the director's first feature film.