Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 76 wins & 58 nominations total
- Andreas
- (as Johan Sömnes)
- Sjukhusreceptionist
- (as Malin Cederbladh)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaSeveral tricks were used to create the right sound effects for some of the gorier scenes. Biting into sausages was used to replicate biting into skin and flesh, and drinking yogurt was used to sound like drinking blood. The sound of the children blinking was made by the skin of grapes rubbing together in an almost "blinking" motion.
- Goofs(at around 16 mins) As Oskar is looking in his clip book with old newspaper articles, a serial number used by the Swedish police is visible. That number ends with 95, which means that crime was committed in 1995. The movie, however, is set in 1982.
- Quotes
Oskar: Eli... Can you and I be together?
Eli: What do you mean?
Oskar: Well... Will you be my girlfriend?
Eli: Oskar... I'm not a girl.
Oskar: You're not?
[pause]
Oskar: Can we be together?
Eli: Can't we just be how we are?
Oskar: I guess...
Eli: Do you do something special if you're "together"?
Oskar: No.
Eli: We stay just as we were?
Oskar: Yes.
Eli: Then I agree...
Oskar: What?
Eli: We can be "together".
Oskar: Really?
Eli: [Whispers] Yes.
Oskar: Good.
It has something big and stunning about this lovely storyline to rivet my attention from the beginning to the end. Moreover, the cinematography and atmosphere in this film are undeniably superb. The chemistry between two preteen protagonists is outstanding and very believable. Everything in this film is well-made in synchronization.
This is the first film related to a vampire that I think is least connected to Vampire's teeth baring at audience all the times, like other familiar horror we used to see. Other than some gory scenes in this film, we can yet see some flesh and blood moment of humane Vampire. And that is truly written to the core plot.
The last scene at swimming pool is totally mesmerizing and mind-blowing.
By the way, if Sweden submits this movie to be in competition with other nominees around the world for Oscar foreign-language film category this year, this masterpiece should win or at least be short-listed for the final fives.
10 out of 10
- ilovetoseethemovie
- Nov 16, 2008
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Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Déjame entrar
- Filming locations
- Örnäset, Luleå, Norrbottens län, Sweden(the apartments)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $4,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,122,065
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $49,295
- Oct 26, 2008
- Gross worldwide
- $11,227,336
- Runtime1 hour 54 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1