Film based on the worldwide bestseller by Fredrik Backman debuts at Fisher Theatre
Sedona AZ (October 31, 2016) – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “A Man Called Ove” — based on the worldwide bestseller by Fredrik Backman — showing Nov. 11-16 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre.
Misery hates company. Ove, an ill-tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife’s grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors.
Stepping from the pages of Fredrik Backman’s international best-selling novel, Ove is the quintessential angry old man next door. An isolated retiree with strict principles and a short fuse, who spends his days enforcing block association rules that only he cares about, and visiting his wife’s grave, Ove has given up on life.
Enter a boisterous young family next door who accidentally flattens Ove’s mailbox while moving in and earning his special brand of ire. Yet from this inauspicious beginning an unlikely friendship forms and we come to understand Ove’s past happiness and heartbreaks. What emerges is a heartwarming tale of unreliable first impressions and the gentle reminder that life is sweeter when it’s shared.
One of Sweden’s biggest locally-produced box office hits ever, director Hannes Holm finds the beating heart of his source material and Swedish star Rolf Lassgård, whose performance won him the Best Actor award at the 2016 Seattle Int’l Film Festival, affectingly embodies the lovable curmudgeon Ove.
“Sets the gold standard in curmudgery with freewheeling comic verve and quirky wisdom.” — Colin Covert, Minneapolis Start Tribune
“Moving and tender.” — Nick Schager, The Village Voice
“Masterful! A funny and moving success.” — Odie Henderson, RogerEbert.com
“A Man Called Ove” will be shown at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre Nov. 11-16. Showtimes will be 7 p.m. on Friday, Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 11, 14 and 15; 4 p.m. on Saturday and Wednesday, Nov. 12 and 16.
Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.