Britt-Marie Was Here 2019

     This film is based on a novel written by Fredrik Backman.  Britt-Marie is 63 years old and she has just separated from a 40 year marriage to a cheating husband.  She has also left her home and her long life as a housewife.  She has been told she is a nagging passive aggressive person.  She lives in the small town of Borg, 88 miles south-west of Stockholm.  This city has no pride left except for the young soccer team and Britt-Marie’s new job is to coach the team.  Britt-Marie doesn’t know anything about soccer except that her husband liked to watch it?  This is the start of a journey filled with struggles, challenges but also warmth and love.  Britt-Marie’s first step at the clubhouse is to start cleaning!! 

     Britt-Marie can’t stand a mess!!  She loves to make to do lists and she loves cleaning products.  Sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as criticisms?  She doesn’t intend to do that but she is socially awkward and a fussy busybody.  She takes the coach job because nothing else was available!!  The previous coach was a man and he passed away.  His daughter lives nearby but she is blind.  4* (I really liked this movie)

97 min, Comedy directed by Tuva Novotny and written by Anders Frithiof August, Fredrik Backman, Oystein Karllsen and Tuva Novotny with Pernilla August, Lancelot Ncube, Vera Vitali, Peter Haber, Olle Sarri, Malin Levanon, Anders Mossling, Mahmut Suvakci, Cecilia Milocco, Nils Magnusson, Stella Oyoko Bengtsson, Sigrid Hogberg.

Note:  Imdb 5.1 out of 10 with 963 reviews, Roger Evert 3* Nell Minow, Rotten Tomatoes 68% with 19 critics, 67% audience with 6 ratings, Metacritic 53 out of 100 with 7 critic reviews (positive 2, 4 mixed , 1 negative), Amazon 3.9* out of 5* with 30 reviews, Letterboxd 2.6* out of 5*.

Special Note:  Goodreads gives the book 4.07* out of 5* with 86,816 ratings and 11,054 reviews.  Some of the scenes are filmed in a small location called Lodose and this is four miles outside of Gothenburg.  The second largest city in Sweden is Gothenburg and it is a metropolitan area on the west coast.