How to Stop a Wedding

2014 [SWEDISH]

Action / Drama / Romance

IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 153 153

train wedding

Plot summary

A drama shot in 5 hours and 17 minutes, exactly the time it takes to travel by rail from Malmö to Stockholm. It's mid-winter. On a train a man and a woman end up in the same compartment. They have a typical conversation between strangers until they discover they are going to the same wedding. It's unimportant whether they got an invitation or are going uninvited. The important thing is that both have plenty of reasons to stop the wedding… It soon turns out that they share not only the same goal but also painful memories and romantic disappointments. This brings them closer together.

Director

Drazen Kuljanin Photo
Drazen Kuljanin

Top cast

Christian Ehrnstén Photo
Christian Ehrnstén as Philip
Lina Sundén Photo
Lina Sundén as Amanda
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642.54 MB
1280*534
Swedish 2.0
NR
us  
25 fps
1 hr 10 min
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1.17 GB
1920*800
Swedish 2.0
NR
us  
25 fps
1 hr 10 min
Seeds ...

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by kkonkina

A Noble, if Ambivalent, First Feature

Drazen Kuljanin's film, How to Stop a Wedding, is a fine noble first feature. The vision is clear, if not fully executed. Typical of green directors, the film drips with energetic, anxious talent but toes the line between portraying the youthful, emotional exuberance that such a story-line naturally possesses and retracting the characters into a slow, muddy sinkhole.The song scene provides an exciting and original break from the physical perspective of the others, yet it is out of touch with the rest of the movie. The interruption in cinematographic flow is surely fun to any viewer, but it lacks the emotional honesty of other wrought and more complex moments between Amanda and Philip.The overarching tension is tentatively resolved with a truly beautiful ending that leaves the audience sharing Amanda's heaving lungs and interrupted inhalation pattern. Yet within a few days' time, one revisits the film hoping for more—something less burdened by a soft, flailing lack of resolution that gives way to external influence—something rawer, purer, and more succinctly forceful. Whether Drazen's next film will resolve this juvenile and misguided ambivalence is to be determined.
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