Oxygen Station

Had the opportunity to watch this film on the streaming service of the swedish public service TV.

There is a strange ambience to this film. It is told without a traditional, straightforward narrative, through a string of self containg scenes, like fragments or episoed of a dream, each invloving two or rarely three people from a large ensemble of recurring characters. Some of these scenes are surrealistic or dreamlike, others more straightforward, gloomy realism. The movie as a whole definitely give me dreamlike and surreal vibes. I wasn´t to fond of that first, felt that I would have liked some more sense and story. I felt like I was just floating about through unconnected pictures and moods. It felt pretty and charismatic, but strangely empty. I paused my playback for a week or so, and when I returned for the last half hour, I really enjoyed it! I guess one needs to be in the right mood to appreciate its strangeness.

It makes me associate to either a gloomy Jaque Tati, or a slightly less surreal and fragmented Roy Andersson.

Cinematography, scenery, photo and mood are terrific. Actors are good too.