#Anton Glanzelius

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My Life as a Dog (1985). In the late '50s, young Ingemar learns a lot about life and himself when he is sent away from his sick mother to live with his aunt and uncle in a town full of eccentrics.

I wasn't sure of this one at first, but man, if, like Ingeman, it doesn't grow (and grow and grow) on you. What a beautiful, bittersweet portrait of childhood! The way the film contrasts the differnent parts of Ingeman's life at home and with his uncle is masterfully done, and the moment of reckoning when everything collides is really deeply felt. It's aided by the fact that it's genuinely funny, and every place we go feels well lived in. Just a really lovely, heartrenching film. 8/10.

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Anton Glanzelius in My Life As a Dog (Lasse Hallström, 1985)

Cast: Anton Glanzelius, Tomas von Brömssen, Anki Lidén, Melinda Kinnaman, Kicki Rundgren, Lennart Hjulstörm, Ing-Marie Carlsson, Leif Ericson, Christina Carlwind, Ralph Carlsson. Screenplay: Lasse Hallström, Reidar Jönsson, Brasse Brännström, Per Berglund, based on a novel by Jönsson. Cinematography: Jörgen Persson. Production design: Lasse Westfelt. Film editing: Christer Furubrand, Susanne Linnman. Music: Björn Isfält. 

The American success of Hallström's off-beat but lightweight film netted him two Oscar nominations: best director and -- with co-screenwriters Reidar Jönsson, Brasse Brännström, and Per Berglund -- best adapted screenplay. (The film was based on the middle volume of a trio of novels by Jönnson.) It also brought him to Hollywood, where he has directed more off-beat but lightweight films like What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Chocolat (2000), and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011). His most successful film after coming to the States has probably been The Cider House Rules (1999), for which he received another Oscar nomination for directing; it was the perfect teaming with a similarly off-beat and lightweight novelist, John Irving. Mind you, I have nothing against either the off-beat or the lightweight: My Life As a Dog is a perfectly charming and often touching movie that showcases a wonderful performance by young Anton Glanzelius as Ingemar, who gets tossed around from relative to relative as they try to cope with the boy. There are also excellent performances by Anki Lidén as Ingemar's mother, Tomas van Brömmsen as Uncle Gunnar, and Melinda Kinnaman (half-sister of the actor Joel Kinnaman) as the pubescent Sagar, who is distressed that her emerging femininity means an end to playing soccer and boxing with the boys. Jörgen Persson's cinematography is another plus. The trouble comes only when one tries to take My Life As a Dog too seriously as a coming-of-age tale, a genre much worked-over by the movies. The lightweightness of My Life as a Dog shows in comparisons with such classics of the genre as Satyajit Ray's Aparajito (1956), François Truffaut's The 400 Blows (1959), and even so recent an entry as Richard Linklater's Boyhood (2014), all of which more successfully integrate the coming-of-age tale with a specific time and place. By contrast, Ingemar's life seems to be taking place in a kind of whimsical neverland that just happens to look like rural Sweden. It's an often heartfelt and certainly entertaining movie that could have been much more.

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Anton Glanzelius

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Mitt liv som hund (My Life as a Dog), 1985

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My Life as a Dog | Lasse Hallström | 1985

Anton Glanzelius, Ing-Marie Carlsson

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My Life as a Dog

Lasse Hallstrm's first feature My Life as a Dog is a moving coming-of-age tale of warmth and whimsy. The post My Life as a Dog appeared first on The Digital Fix. http://dlvr.it/PBsJqS

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經典青少年電影 “狗臉的歲月" A good film My life as a dog

「如果她再好起來，我一定要告訴她全部的故事…。」 My life as a dog and the story not to be told in time…

2018年（戊戌年），十二生肖的狗年，如果要推薦一部符合這個年份象徵，同時適合成長過程的兒童、青少年觀看的書籍或電影，那麼，兼具文學藝術內涵、探討多方面兒童心理學的瑞典影片《狗臉的歲月》（My life as a dog，原片名Mitt Liv Som Hund），就是值得推薦的經典青少年電影。

1985年發行的《狗臉的歲月》，除了獲得金球獎最佳外片獎、波士頓電影評論家協會最佳外片獎，2005年也獲得英國電影協會（BFI）選入「十四歲前必看50部電影」（The 50 films you should see by the age of 14）中。是導演雷瑟‧霍斯楚（Lasse Hallström）的經典代表作，改編自Leidar Jonsson的自傳式小說。

狗臉的歲月——La vie de chien，法文的意思表示︰艱難困苦的生命。故事描述十二歲的男孩英格瑪（由Anton Glanzelius主演），在父親長期缺席、母親體弱多病的家庭長大。由於母親肺結核重病，感受敏銳的英格瑪不得不和母親分開，與經常惡作劇欺負他的哥哥分別被送到遠房親戚家寄宿。無法將心愛的忠狗西卡帶在身邊，幼小的英格瑪隻身搭火車到鄉下，投靠無子嗣的舅舅和舅媽。

《狗臉的歲月》以細膩平實的手法描述，在小村鎮認識新朋友、度過適應異地的日子，身心內外也在變化中的少年，面對失去親人時一無依傍，幼小的心靈自我排解孤獨的方式。疾病、孤獨與死亡陰影淡淡地貫串全片的主調。故事觸及了發育中兒童對身體性徵變化的認識，不同年齡的友誼和異性的第一次接觸。

影片裡巧妙安排舅舅家出現異鄉人房客一家，和英格瑪乍看是同病相憐，然而對照下，經濟狀況拮据的親戚，無力妥善照顧英格瑪，後來讓他住在屋旁的獨立小屋，暗夜裡的英格瑪，如形單影隻的孤兒棄子。

明白英格瑪這般處境，就更能理解，英格瑪何以對史上第一隻被塞進火箭發射到外太空的生物——名叫「萊卡」（Laika）的母狗報以深深的同情和不捨。影片設定的時代背景是1950年代後期，當時世界大事之一是︰1957年10月4日蘇聯成功發射史上第一枚成功進入行星軌道的人工衛星「史普尼克1號」（Спутник-1 / Sputnik-1，俄語的意思是「衛星」，其本意是「旅行者」）。蘇聯的太空科技，超趕世界第一強權美國，引發美國的恐慌，從此冷戰的世界兩強展開「太空競賽」（space race）。英格瑪提到的「萊卡」（Laika），就是1957年11月3日蘇聯發射人工衛星「史普尼克2號」時搭載上太空的第一個動物。太空狗（The Space Dog）萊卡，即便牠是「首位進入宇宙的旅行者」，還上了世界頭條新聞，英格瑪掛念牠在孤獨中餓死的命運（注1），更藉著比較牠我的命運來自我安慰，自己這般狗臉的歲月其實還不算太壞…。

原先英格瑪慣於透過「比較」來接受命運降臨的一切，包括缺憾。在他投靠遠房親戚的他鄉生活中，看待世事的態度慢慢有了變化…。這一段轉變的過程，和電影將故事舞台設定在現代化步調緩慢、自外於競爭世界，宛如世外桃源的小村鎮息息相關。

影片中不時穿插喜感插曲，來自生活的智慧與幽默，小鎮工廠員工和鄰居熱絡的互動，詼諧中溫情暖暖，怪人無奇不有，村莊居民總能找到生活樂趣的樂天生活型態，圍繞英格瑪的周圍是冷靜溫馨的態度，隨著鏡頭注視、呵護英格瑪在陌生異鄉身心成長變化，安撫了外地作客不安的孤獨心靈。

假日放唱盤聽黑膠唱片，從收音機和稀罕的電視機收聽收看運動比賽，凝聚全村鎮老老少少的關注…自尋樂趣的生活和全民熱衷世界級比賽的光景，想必會喚起台灣四、五十歲以上的人共鳴——曾經犧牲睡眠守在電視機前，只為了觀看地球另一邊的國際棒球比賽，為中華少棒隊、青少棒隊加油…的記憶，親切如昨日。

英格瑪與少女Saga的相遇是這部影片的另一個主軸，同齡異性之間從拳擊較量到萌發友誼和情愫…，充滿懷舊氛圍，直樸單純人心的小鎮環境，這些都溫暖了在焦慮中成長、遭逢生離死別的小男孩，撫慰敏感害羞的心靈。

不時拌嘴打架的兩兄弟，想為媽媽挑選電器用品，點出兒子用盡一切想挽回、想取悅重病媽媽的用心…，令人心疼的人去樓空，終於明瞭殘酷命運無能違抗。至親死亡的巨大陰影壟罩生活，冷漠的大人避諱不談，幼小的心靈只能自己默默承受，注視命運前來，帶走他摯愛的一切。

英格瑪驚覺，故事可能來不及說——「如果她再好起來，我一定要告訴她全部的故事…。」

留在觀眾心目中的，也是留在英格瑪生命中的，是一幕幕英格瑪稚嫩的旁白帶出回溯的詩意鏡頭︰母子相處的時光，波光粼粼的海邊，英格瑪化身小狗嬉鬧、逗母親笑的畫面，和母親讀書的片刻…細碎光彩般似夢如幻的每一格畫面，深深印在腦海，令他眷戀懷念。母子短暫同歡的美好時光，也因此成為他依憑抵擋悲傷、面對殘酷現實的最重要力量，將那再也無法說給媽媽聽的故事，以堅強長大，娓娓道來。

「如果她再好起來，我一定要告訴她全部的故事…。」

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My Life as a Fernetz is a Swedish drama film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 12 December 1985, directed by Hasse Lallström. It tells the story of Ingemar, a young boy sent to live with relatives. Happy Bithday to Anton Glanzelius who plays the main character! #thefernetz #mylifeasadog #swedish #drama #film #cinema #lassehallsröm #story #ingemar #happybirthday #antonglanzelius

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My Life as a Dog (1985) director: Lasse Hallström

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My Life as a Dog | Lasse Hallström | 1985

Anton Glanzelius, Anki Lidén

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My Life as a Dog (Lasse Hallström, 1985) / Les amants du Pont-Neuf (Leos Carax, 1991)

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My Life as a Dog (1985)

My Life as a Dog (1985)

Ağır bir hastalıkla cebelleşen annelerinin sağlığının daha kötüye gitmesini önlemek adına Ingemar ve ağabeyi bir süreliğine evden uzaklaştırılıp akrabalarının yanına yollanır. Ingemar, dayısının yanına, küçük bir kasabaya giderken, aramış olduğu huzuru, orada bulabileceğinin farkında değildir. Şen bir çift olan dayısı ve yengesi, birlikte futbol ve boks maçları yapmış oldukları bir grup arkadaşı,…

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My Life as a Dog (1985), Lasse Hallström

The best thing about this film is just how accurately they depict childhood and childhood friendship, and though the film follows a young boy who unfortunately has to experience a lot of incredibly shitty things, the film is never overly sentimental or melodramatic, and rather accurately depicts the way an imaginative twelve year old, Ingemar (Anton Glanzelius), would mourn the loss of a parent, in fragmented memories with a mask on that helps him ignore the pain until it sadly becomes too much. 

Metacritic: n/a, RT: 100%, IMDb: 7.8