Shelter from the storm

Kisses

Crit

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out whether this is a Wizard of Oz movie or a non-Wizard of Oz movie, but finally I decided that what it is is an anti-Wizard of Oz movie: Oz (Dublin) may not be perfect, but it's a tragedy to have to go back to Kansas (a mind-numbingly dreary working-class suburb). Actually, Huckleberry Finn is a closer analogue: Huck is Dylan and Jim is his next-door neighbor Kylie; they even spend a chunk of their first hours of escape not on the River Liffey but on a canal garbage dredge. And in this version, Leslie Fiedler's repressed homoeroticism becomes fumbling preadolescent heteroeroticism. But they have just as much trouble getting out from under "sivilization." Untrained actors Shane Curry and Kelly O'Neill make the children real. A quiet gem.

End-credits mystery: what part of this was filmed in Göteborg, and why? Wait, correction: Trollhättan, Västra Götalands län, though it was filmed by the Göteborg unit.