Synopsis
Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune Elisabeth learns that the world can be viewed from different perspectives.
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Cast
- Lisa LindgrenElisabeth
- Michael NyqvistRolf
- Emma SamuelssonEva
- Sam KesselStefan
- Gustaf HammarstenGöran
- Anja LundqvistLena
- Jessica LiedbergAnna
- Axel ZuberTet
- Shanti RoneyKlas
- Ola RapaceLasse
- 100
Entertainment Weekly
This is the rare movie that gets you to fall in love with characters you don't even like. - 90
Chicago Reader
A wonderfully complex examination of sexual and material politics that's full of bravely provocative, gently funny, and warmly human encounters. - 90
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Moodysson captures exactly the preening narcissism and gumption of these frazzled would-be revolutionaries trying to wriggle out of their bourgeois straitjackets. - 88
New York Daily News
Funny gem. - 88
Philadelphia Inquirer
A mordantly funny, clear-eyed view of an extended family's mounting dysfunction in a changing society. - 83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It's a brilliant little microcosm of the '60s experience that, in a most gentle way, shows us how the counterculture probably was doomed from its inception. - 80
TV Guide Magazine
Moodysson puts it across with a sincerity that's genuinely heartwarming, and he sets it all to a surprisingly good soundtrack culled from the Swedish rock (who knew?) of the era. - 78
Austin Chronicle
Together's portrait of its social moment is right-on.