Stockholm My Love

Neneh Cherry, director Mark Cousins and cinematographer Christopher Doyle create an inventive docu-style fiction and a love song to the Swedish city.

Sweden-UK 2016
Directed by Mark Cousins
Produced by Anita Oxburgh, Mary Bell, Adam Dawtrey
Screenplay by Mark Cousins, Anita Oxburgh
With Neneh Cherry
88 min

Mark Cousins and Neneh Cherry team up for this superb ‘is it a doc, or is it fiction’ film. Cherry’s Alva struggles under steely skies of Stockholm with debilitating depression from a trauma a year earlier. Bunking off work, she takes us through the city, exploring buildings, bridges, a cinema, each place revealing more about her state of mind. Taking in the immigrant experience, her relationship with her father, Stockholm’s history, we slowly work towards the tragedy, which is devastatingly revealed. Exquisitely photographed by Christopher Doyle (In the Mood for Love) this is a visceral, music and poetry-filled exploration of grief, but one that also examines the glorious moments when Alva emerges from that state.

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In cinemas from 16 June 2017

On BFI Player from 16 June 2017

On BFI DVD/Blu-ray from 26 June 2017
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