Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 18, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2005

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 28, 2004

August ... steers this story to its stirring conclusion with firm lack of sentimentality.

| Jul 19, 2003

It may sound like a mere disease-of- the-week 온라인카지노추천 movie, but A Song For Martin is made infinitely more wrenching by the performances of real-life spouses Seldahl and Wollter.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 6, 2003

Upsetting and thought-provoking, the film has an odd purity that doesn't bring you into the characters so much as it has you study them.

| Nov 15, 2002

It's so downbeat and nearly humorless that it becomes a chore to sit through -- despite some first-rate performances by its lead.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 18, 2002

Director-writer Bille August ... depicts this relationship with economical grace, letting his superb actors convey Martin's deterioration and Barbara's sadness -- and, occasionally, anger.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 18, 2002

Full of unforgiving irony and quiet realism, A Song for Martin stands as a powerful and moving achievement.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Aug 31, 2002

Martin and Barbara are complex characters -- sometimes tender, sometimes angry -- and the delicate performances by Sven Wollter and Viveka Seldahl make their hopes and frustrations vivid.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 15, 2002

More honest about Alzheimer's disease, I think, than Iris.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 19, 2002

Viveka Seldahl and Sven Wollter will touch you to the core in a film you will never forget -- that you should never forget.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 18, 2002

The movie, for all its sincerity, becomes clinical and repetitious, though its unsparing vision of the fragility of identity can give you a shudder.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jul 11, 2002

An extraordinary Swedish film about the soul adventure of marriage -- the kind of intimate and character-driven film that Bille August does best.

| Jun 28, 2002

This slow-moving Swedish film offers not even a hint of joy, preferring to focus on the humiliation of Martin as he defecates in bed and urinates on the plants at his own birthday party.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 28, 2002

A touching examination of the ravages of Alzheimer's disease.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 27, 2002

Mr. Wollter and Ms. Seldhal give strong and convincing performances, but neither reaches into the deepest recesses of the character to unearth the quaking essence of passion, grief and fear.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 27, 2002

An almost unbearably morbid love story.

| Jun 27, 2002

Seldahl's Barbara is a precise and moving portrait of someone whose world is turned upside down, first by passion and then by illness.

| Jun 25, 2002

Painful to watch, but viewers willing to take a chance will be rewarded with two of the year's most accomplished and riveting film performances.

| Jun 11, 2002