Tuesday Club - Film Review Scandinavian Film Festival 2022

Tuesday Club - Film Review Scandinavian Film Festival 2022

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Posted 2022-07-06 by Jenfollow

Tue 12 Jul 2022 - Wed 10 Aug 2022

Tuesday Club - Film Review (Scandinavian Film Festival 2022)


Tuesday Club will be screening at the Carlsberg Scandinavian Film Festival which returns to our shores from 12 July to 10 August in various states. Amongst films from Norway, Finland, Iceland and Denmark, this Swedish film is a romantic comedy, drama that's 102 mins long, with English subtitles. Do check out the Film Festival's website for other screenings of exciting dramas, comedies and crime thrillers, and stay in touch via Facebook for updates.

In the midst of celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary, Karin (Marie Richardson) discovers that her husband Sten (Björn Kjellman) is having an affair. Reeling from the discovery, it causes Karin to take a good hard look at her life and where it's going. A feel-good debut feature from Swedish director Annika Apelin, this film is about friendships between supportive girlfriends, and second chances.


Karin and Sten have been married for 40 years and have a daughter who is single and turning 40. They have an idyllic life that is seemingly perfect until Karin discovers a texted pair of breasts on her husband's phone. She confronts Sten while he's hanging off a beam on the porch, causing an accident that lands Sten in hospital. While he's recuperating, Karin is left contemplating her future, and reevaluating her life, and her marriage. By chance, one day she runs into Monika, an old school friend she wasn't particularly close to, who wasn't going to take no for an answer to a night out. This leads to the women rediscovering each other, and planning on taking a cooking class together on Tuesdays, led by renowned chef Henrik (Peter Storemare (Fargo, Minority Report). The days conflict with Karin's swimming dates with her best friend Pia, who gets roped into joining the cooking class.

Tuesday Club is a charming little film that's gentle throughout in the way it handles life's angst. It's about reassessing everything you thought was forever and opening up to new friendships, new experiences, rediscovering old passions and sauntering into starting all over again at an age when you thought all that was behind you. The friendships are charming and the culinary side of the film comes up with a few drool-worthy images of delectable food on a plate.


If you think Henrik the chef looks familiar, he's the Swedish actor who generally gets the role of the tough guy or the villain in many a Hollywood movie. You might remember him from Chocolat where he plays Serge Muscat, the wife beater. It was good to see a mellowed-down Storemare in a romantic role for a change and the film successfully infuses passion and heat into its illicit and romantic scenes amongst an older generation not often seen on screen. Storemare and Richardson make it very believable.

Richardson, a veteran of film and stage is an excellent actress and gives a fabulous performance, bringing the depth, subtle comedy and nuances required of her that's not lost in translation. The film treads lighter and does not hit as hard as a Hollywood film might have, but it's a charming, undemanding viewing with some great architecture and scenery thrown in its surrounds. The rest of the cast successfully pour out the charm and comedy necessary in their supporting roles, and if a feel-good film with some comedic twists that take you in another direction is what you're after, this is the one.



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