July 4th
Let the Right One In** (15)
Prince Charles Cinema

Swe 2008. Filmpool Noro Sveriges Television SVI/WAG/Efti. 115m.

A 12-year old boy who is being threatened by school bullies finds help and encouragement from a strange girl of the same age who is actually a centuries-old vampire.
Unusual horror fable, a pre-adolescent vampire love story in effect, set in grimy 1970s Scandinavian locations. Some of the cutting (and the film as a whole) could have been shorter and sharper, but also nicely understated in thoughtful arthouse cinema fashion, with only brief concessions to the genre when a female victim of the child vampire also becomes a member of the Undead.

Written by: John Ajvie Lindqvist, from his novel.
Producers: John Nordling, Carl Molinder.
Director: Tomas Alfredson.
Starring: Kare Hedebrant, Lina Llanderson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl, Karin Berqquist, Peter Calberg, Ika Nord, Mikael Rahn.
Photography: Hoyte Van Hoytema.
Music: Johan Soderqvist.