The English translation of ritornello enda Dat is not only more faithful to the original name of this Swedish film, but also what goes through the whole movie, different from the bland Secrets two marriages, which was chosen for distribution in Latin America. In the Anglo market, the film is named A rational solution ("A rational solution"), and just talk about it, the weight to load someone trying to solve all the emotions aside.
Erland (Rolf Lassgard) is married to Maj (Stina Ekbald) and seem to keep a marriage where there is more camaraderie than love. The two live in a small industrial town in Sweden and alternate work activities with marriage counseling groups conducted in a church. In turn, we have the timid, hypochondriacal Sven-Erik (Claes Ljungmark), Erland partner factory, which was rescued by him from a suicide attempt in a not too distant past. It is in the party in honor of Sven-Erik Erland know where Karin (Pernilla August), the wife of the birthday boy. Love (or passion, that discussion of nomenclature covers the entire length of the film) is almost at first sight, but not be among them a emotional fence can barely contain those desires. The resulting inevitable temptation ends and the two begin an affair (admittedly the mastery with which the actors Jorgen Bergmark and solve the first intimate encounter in the parking lot of a supermarket) that is maintained until the two decide to talk to your respective pairs.
That's where the film hits its most important tip, when the two couples are joined in a roundtable to discuss the situation. The funny thing is the decision they make, the four try to live together, assuming that Erland and Karin love is just a passing passion. Developed a kind of decalogue of coexistence whose articles are not being able to have sex in view of others, and not be swayed by emotions. The rationale for the list, far from smooth things over and allow a more healthy life together, going back to the characters, first against the most clearly affected, trying to sleep listening to small bed rechinares they confirm that their partners are having sex in an adjoining room, but then also reach the same ideologues of the plan.
The film exudes "suequés" everywhere. Beyond the nature of cold weather and the dim light of the Nordic world, sometimes aesthetic choices independent film thickness of this region seems that was filmed by the same director of photography: pale colors, as opposed to celestial filters faint yellow, like the winter sun (and only in movies that could be cited paraded Cinematheque The king of -pong also Jorgen Bergmark, but also Nord-Denstad Norwegian Rune Langlo-or The comedy of life - Roy Andersson). In The comedy of life could noted a curious detail that appears to be in this film: the alternation of a tone desafectivizado with pent-up emotions that leave the body as weeds between the tiles.
At one point, Sven-Erik becomes obsessed with a paper cutter which is staged him and the rest of the workers being sectioned into pieces perfect. The image of the cutter easily lends itself to the metaphor of breaking that are going through all the characters, but digging deeper, it seems not just talk about the life of the cast, but also in Sweden itself, a country that from its social position Democrat so recognized, shapes its inhabitants from its source (eg career guidance policies in high schools and universities, which limit the range of choice to the student), with a society welfare which leaves very little room for spontaneity, or at least permitted, but in close quarters, almost in a predefined and controlled. Not for nothing is the country's most violent black metal and one of the highest suicide rates. The latter would seem a fitting detail, but seem to fit the same movie, with an indefinable tone from melancholy, despair and comedy. Secrets two marriages, one might say that it is almost a comedy, but also a bitter slap to those progressive ideals and liberal Europe feathering
More than any other comedy from the makers of the Scandinavian countries, Jorgen Bergmark seem to realize that love is not so simple, and that in certain circumstances, rationality is the craziest of the elections.
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