Here are the translations of the reviews. The second one was a very hard to translate so I hope you get some sense out of it. My first language is Norwegian... So it's not perfect Swedish translated into not perfect English, if you understand what I mean...
http://www.filmstar.se/sv/193715/2010-0 ... skeletons/
Skeletons
The first real surprise of the festival comes from England. They try to sell it in the program by saying that it is a “Kaufmanian film”. That feels like a cheap trick to make people like me go and watch – which is working. But I know how it usually is. If they use names associated with high quality, the result in most cases are embarrassing. But then there are exceptions to this rule, of course.
The film is about two gentlemen who work as some kind of “detectives”. Their job is to search through the closets of different couples and find things that the couple is, literally spoken, hiding from each other. Later, they tell the couples about what they have found, and then they never come back. (ME: I think it means that the “detectives” never come back)
One day, they are hired to try and find a lost partner in a relationship. It immediately becomes complicated and the film becomes almost a mystery where you your self can puzzle and wonder about what happens when different people travels in and out of each other’s brains and memories.
It may sound messy – and it is. But it is properly told, and it’s done in a very direct and consistent way, and it never takes any unnecessary detours. It’s very focused and intense with small means. Nick Whitfield is a man to keep an eye on, since this debut promise a lot for the future. It’s almost so you dare to call out that Europe has gotten its own Charlie Kaufman.
http://www.catenaccireflections.net/201 ... etons.html
It is hard to give a short resume about what Skeletons is about, because it feels like it has so many layers and possibilities of interpretations that it becomes almost impossible to explain it in a short way. But this is a small attempt: Two guys have the profession of cleaning Skeletons out of people’s closets. One day, they are entrusted work by a wife whose man has disappeared without a trace. This case seems to be more difficult than they expected and things aren’t going according to their plan.
Sounds interesting? I think it doesn’t. But we are dragged onto a journey that doesn’t look like anything I have seen ever before. It’s starts off pretty weird, but halfway into the film, it clears up before it gets twisted again. But it is cool, interesting and good. And, I must say, much multilayered. I let my associations float freely and I get served a lot of different messages. Something I think it’s extra cool. The film is simple (ME: simple is the closest word I can think of right now) in a laidback, cozy and fun way. I also unbelievable analogous (ME: not sure what he means here) and most of the dialog happens when the lead characters are walking. Yes, it sounds completely crazy, and it is. But it’s crazy in a good way and it makes Skeletons a lovely little film festival gem.
Thanks for the title, Hilary! I do my best...
Nothing about Jason's performance...
I just loved Thunder's translations from Swedish through her own Norwegian, and into our English! Wonderful! And to translate about a weird off the wall film classified as "black Comedy" must make all of it that much more difficult! Now I just MUST see this little film, and Jason being the "Supervisor of Exorcists! Thanks a lot, our official translator of Viking material......Love Milady Malfoy
