Guidance

  • 78'
  • Sweden
  • 2009
Guidance is one of the first results of the Rookie project, intended to support young Swedish debutant film makers in realising their film plans. The charm of the film is in the detailed portrait of the lost souls who offer help and seek help in a 21st-century welfare state.
Guidance is a cat and mouse game between an overweight man in his fifties and the young Carl Arendsen, who wants to establish himself as a therapist. In the opening scene, we see Carl be inspired by a confrontational workshop. The man in his fifties is Roy Blomberg, who was wrestling with a plethora of psychosomatic complaints and has been home for 18 months. The locum who replaces his general practitioner one day is convinced that Roy's problems are between his ears. Roy's wife happens to meet a self-assured Carl, who adopts an unconventional methodology. After a little pressure, the husband gives in to his wife and withdraws with Carl to his spartan hut in the Swedish countryside.
A regime of physical exertion starts, interspersed with spiritual challenges and a strict diet. Slowly Roy becomes convinced that it's a pointless undertaking, while his wife at home realises that her husband may have fallen into the hands of a charlatan. (GT)



  • 78'
  • Sweden
  • 2009
Director
Johan Jonason
Premiere
International premiere
Country of production
Sweden
Year
2009
Festival Edition
IFFR 2009
Length
78'
Medium
35mm
Languages
Swedish, English
Producers
Rebecka Lafrenz, Mimmi Spång
Production Company
Garagefilm International
Sales
Garagefilm International
Screenplay
Johan Jonason
Cinematography
Simon Pramsten
Editor
Johan Jonason, Helena Fredriksson
Production Design
Gilles Balabaud
Sound Design
Per Nyström
Music
Axel Bohman, Fredrik Fahlman
Cast
Björn Andersson
Website
http://www.garagefilm.se/en/productions/behandlingen/
Director
Johan Jonason
Premiere
International premiere
Country of production
Sweden
Year
2009
Festival Edition
IFFR 2009
Length
78'
Medium
35mm
Languages
Swedish, English
Producers
Rebecka Lafrenz, Mimmi Spång
Production Company
Garagefilm International
Sales
Garagefilm International
Screenplay
Johan Jonason
Cinematography
Simon Pramsten
Editor
Johan Jonason, Helena Fredriksson
Production Design
Gilles Balabaud
Sound Design
Per Nyström
Music
Axel Bohman, Fredrik Fahlman
Cast
Björn Andersson
Website
http://www.garagefilm.se/en/productions/behandlingen/