Let the Right One In (film)
Let the Right One In | |
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Swedish | Låt den rätte komma in |
Directed by | Tomas Alfredson |
Screenplay by | John Ajvide Lindqvist |
Based on | Låt den rätte komma in by John Ajvide Lindqvist |
Produced by |
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Starring | |
Cinematography | Hoyte van Hoytema |
Edited by |
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Music by | Johan Söderqvist |
Production companies |
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Distributed by | Sandrew Metronome |
Release dates |
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Running time | 114 minutes[1] |
Country | Sweden |
Language | Swedish |
Budget | |
Box office | $11.2 million[2] |
Let the Right One In (Swedish: Låt den rätte komma in) is a 2008 Swedish romantic horror film directed by Tomas Alfredson, based on the 2004 novel of the same title by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who also wrote the screenplay. The film tells the story of a bullied 12-year-old boy who develops a friendship with a strange child in Blackeberg, a suburb of Stockholm, in the early 1980s.
A film adaptation of Lindqvist's novel began development in 2004 when John Nordling acquired the rights to produce the project. Alfredson, unconcerned with the horror and
Let the Right One In premiered at the
, was released in 2010.Plot
Oskar, a meek 12-year-old boy, resides with his mother Yvonne in the western Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg in 1982. His classmates regularly bully him, and he spends his evenings imagining revenge, collecting clippings from newspapers and magazines about murders. One night he meets Eli, who appears to be a pale girl of his age. Eli has recently moved into the next-door apartment with an older man, Håkan. Eli initially informs Oskar that they cannot be friends. Over time, however, the two begin to form a relationship, and exchange Morse code messages through their adjoining wall. Eli learns that Oskar is being bullied by schoolmates and encourages him to stand up for himself. Oskar enrolls in weight-training classes after school.
Earlier, Håkan stops and kills a passerby on a footpath to harvest blood for Eli, but is interrupted by an approaching dog walker. Eli is prompted to waylay and kill a local man, Jocke, making his way home after having said goodnight to his best friend, Lacke. A cat-loving recluse, Gösta, witnesses the attack from his flat but, in disbelief, decides not to report the incident. Håkan hides Jocke's body in an ice-hole in the local lake. Håkan makes another effort to obtain blood for Eli by trapping a teenage boy in a changing room after school. When he is about to be discovered by the boy's friends, Håkan pours concentrated hydrochloric acid onto his own face, disfiguring it to prevent the authorities from identifying him. Eli visits Håkan in the hospital; Håkan offers her his neck for feeding. Eli drains him of his blood, and Håkan falls out the window. Eli goes to Oskar's apartment and spends the night with him, during which time they agree to "go steady", though Eli states, "I'm not a girl".
During an ice skating field trip at the lake, some of Oskar's fellow students discover Jocke's body. At the same time, the bullies again harass Oskar, who hits their leader Conny in the head with a metal pole, splitting his ear. Sometime later, unaware that Eli is a vampire, Oskar suggests that he and Eli form a blood bond, and cuts his hand, asking Eli to do the same. Eli, thirsting for blood but not wanting to harm Oskar, laps up his blood before running away. Lacke's girlfriend, Virginia, is subsequently attacked by Eli. Virginia survives but discovers that she has become painfully sensitive to sunlight. Virginia visits Gösta, only to be fiercely attacked by Gösta's cats. Soon after this, Oskar confronts Eli, who admits to being a vampire. Oskar is initially upset by Eli's need to kill people for survival. However, Eli insists that they are alike, in that Oskar wants to kill and Eli needs to kill, and encourages Oskar to "be me, for a little while."
In the hospital, Virginia asks an orderly to open the blinds in her room. When the sunlight streams in, Virginia bursts into flames. Lacke tracks Eli down to the apartment. Breaking in, he discovers Eli asleep in the bathtub. He prepares to kill Eli, but Oskar interferes; Eli wakes up, jumps on Lacke and feeds on his blood, killing him. Eli thanks Oskar and kisses him. However, an upstairs neighbor is angrily knocking on the ceiling due to the disturbance. Eli realises that it is not safe to stay and leaves that night.
The next morning, Oskar is lured out to resume the after-school fitness program at the local swimming pool. The bullies, led by Conny and his older brother Jimmy, start a fire to draw Mr Ávila, the supervising teacher, outside. They enter the pool area and order the children, aside from Oskar, to clear out. Jimmy forces Oskar under the water, threatening to stab his eye out if he does not hold his breath for three minutes. While Oskar is being held underwater, Eli arrives and rescues him by killing and dismembering the bullies, except for the most reluctant of their number, Andreas, who is left sobbing on a bench.
Later, Oskar is travelling on a train with Eli in a box beside him. From inside, Eli taps the word "kiss" to Oskar in Morse code, to which he taps back "small kiss".[a]
Cast
- Oskar
- Eli
- Elif Ceylan as Eli (Voice)
- Susanne Ruben as Aged Eli
- Håkan
- Henrik Dahl as Erik
- Karin Bergquist as Yvonne
- Lacke
- Virginia
- Mikael Rahm as Jocke
- Karl Robert Lindgren as Gösta
- Anders T. Peedu as Morgan
- Pale Olofsson as Larry
- Cayetano Ruiz as Magister Ávila
- Patrik Rydmark as Conny
- Johan Sömnes as Andreas
- Mikael Erhardsson as Martin
- Rasmus Luthander as Jimmy
- Sören Källstigen as Erik's friend
- Bernt Östman as Virginia's nurse
- Kajsa Linderholm as Oskar's teacher
Production
Development
The film project started in late 2004 when John Nordling, a producer at the production company EFTI, contacted Ajvide Lindqvist's publisher Ordfront to acquire the rights for a film adaptation of his novel, Let the Right One In: "At Ordfront they just laughed when I called, I was like the 48th they put on the list. But I called John Ajvide Lindqvist and it turned out we had the same idea of what kind of film we should make. It wasn't about money, but about the right constellation".[5] A friend introduced Tomas Alfredson to the novel.[6] While he normally does not like to receive books, because "it's a private thing to choose what to read", he decided after a few weeks to read it.[7] The depiction of bullying in the novel affected Alfredson deeply. "It's very hard and very down-to-earth, unsentimental (...) I had some period when I grew up when I had hard times in school (...) So it really shook me", he told the Los Angeles Times.[8] Ajvide Lindqvist already knew Alfredson's previous work,[7] and he and Alfredson discovered that they "understood each other very well".[6]
In addition to EFTI, co-producers included Sveriges Television and the regional production-centre Filmpool Nord. The production involved a total budget of around 29 million SEK, including support from the Swedish Film Institute, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, WAG, and Canal+.[9][10]
Screenplay
Lindqvist had insisted on writing the screenplay himself. Alfredson, who had no familiarity with the vampire and horror genres,
A key passage in the novel details what happens when a vampire enters a room uninvited, an action that traditional vampire lore usually prohibits.[15] Alfredson originally wanted to omit this from the film, but Ajvide Lindqvist was adamant that it had to be included.[14] Alfredson was initially nervous about the scene. He realised in post-production that the sound effects and music made it "American, in a bad way", and had to be removed for the scene to work.[16] The result, which shows Eli slowly beginning to bleed from her eyes, ears, and pores, received positive notices from many critics.[17][18][19] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian described it as a "haemophilia of rejection".[15]
The novel presents Eli as an androgynous boy, castrated centuries before by a sadistic vampire nobleman. The film handles the issue of Eli's gender more ambiguously: a brief scene in which Eli changes into a dress offers a glimpse of a suggestive scar but no explicit elaboration.[14] When Oskar asks Eli to become his girlfriend, Eli tries to tell Oskar "I'm not a girl". An actress plays Eli's character, but her voice was considered to be too high pitched, so it was dubbed by voice actress Elif Ceylan. According to an interview with the director, as the film was originally conceived, flashbacks explained this aspect in more detail, but these scenes were eventually cut.[20] In the novel, his vampiric characteristics are also more explicit: Eli can thus transform his hands and feet into real clawed claws, and can also deploy a membrane between his arms and his body to fly. In the end, Ajvide Lindqvist was satisfied with the adaptation. When Alfredson showed him eight minutes of footage for the first time, he "started to cry because it was so damn beautiful".[21] He subsequently described the film as a "masterpiece".[21] "It doesn't really matter that [Alfredson] didn't want to do it the way I wanted it in every respect. He could obviously never do that. The film is his creative process", he said.[14]
Casting and filming
Casting of the lead actors took almost a year,[22][23] with open castings held all over Sweden. Kåre Hedebrant, selected to audition for the role as Oskar after an initial screening at his school, eventually landed the role.[24] Lina Leandersson responded to an online advertisement seeking a 12-year-old boy or girl "good at running".[25] After three more auditions, she was selected to play Eli.[24]
Alfredson has described the casting process as the most difficult part of making the film.[22] He had particular concerns about the interaction between the two leads,[8] and the fact that those who had read the book would have a preconceived notion of how the characters were supposed to look.[26] He wanted the actors to look innocent, and be able to interact in front of the camera. They were supposed to be "mirror images of each other. She is everything he isn't. Dark, strong, brave, and a girl. (...) Like two sides of the same coin."[14] On another occasion, Alfredson stated that "[c]asting is 70 percent of the job; it's not about picking the right people to make the roles. It is about creating chords, how a B and A minor interact together, and are played together."[13] In the end, Alfredson expressed satisfaction with the result, and has frequently lauded Hedebrant and Leandersson for being "extremely intelligent",[23] "incredibly wise",[26] and "unprecedentedly fantastic."[23]
Although the film takes place in Blackeberg, a suburb of Stockholm, principal photography took place in Luleå (in the north of Sweden) to ensure enough snow and cold weather. The area where the filming took place dated from around the same time as Blackeberg, and has similar architecture.[12] However, Alfredson shot a few scenes in the Blackeberg area. In particular, the scene where Eli leaps down on Virginia from a tree, was shot in the town square of Blackeberg.[16] Another scene, where Eli attacks Jocke in an underpass, was shot in the nearby suburb of Råcksta.[12] The original Blackeberg underpass that Lindqvist had envisioned was deemed too high to fit in the picture.[16] Some of the outdoor close-up scenes were made in a super cold studio.[27] The jungle gym where much of the interaction between Oskar and Eli takes place was constructed specifically for the film.[20] Its design was intended to suit the CinemaScope format[20] better than a regular jungle gym, which would typically have to be cropped height-wise.[16]
Most of the filming used a single, fixed,
Post-production
The film contains around fifty shots with computer-generated imagery. Alfredson wanted to make them very subtle and almost unnoticeable.[20] The sequence where multiple cats attack Virginia, one of the most complicated scenes to film, required several weeks of drafting and planning. The crew used a combination of real cats, stuffed cats and computer-generated imagery.[16]
The film features analogue sound-effects exclusively throughout.
Soundtrack
Swedish composer
The song "Kvar i min bil", written and performed by Per Gessle, resonates repeatedly through the film. Originally an outtake from Gessle's solo album En händig man, the song was specially provided for the film, to resemble the sound of popular 1980s pop group Gyllene Tider.[36] Gessle has described the song as a "bluesy tune with a nice guitar hook".[37] Other songs in the film include "Försonade" from 1968, written and performed by future ABBA member Agnetha Fältskog,[16] "Flash in the Night" from 1981, written by Tim Norell and Björn Håkansson and performed by Secret Service,[16] and "Dags å välja sida" by Peps Blodsband.
Release
Let the Right One In premiered at the
The Swedish premiere was originally planned for 18 April 2008, but following the positive response from the festival screenings, the producers decided to postpone the release until autumn, to allow for a longer theatrical run.
The film was released in North America on
Reception
Critical reception
Let the Right One In has a 98% rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 193 reviews, with an average rating of 8.3/10. The critical consensus reads, "Let the Right One In reinvigorates the seemingly tired vampire genre by effectively mixing scares with intelligent storytelling".[52] Additionally, Metacritic has reported an average score of 82 out of 100 based on 30 reviews.[53]
Swedish critics generally expressed positive reactions to the film. In 26 reviews listed at the Swedish-language review site Kritiker.se it achieved an average rating of 4.1 out of 5.[55] Svenska Dagbladet gave the film a rating of five out of six, and hailed Alfredson for his ability to "tell [stories] through pictures instead of words about a society where hearts are turned to icicles and everyone is left on their own, but also about love warm and red like blood on white melting snow".[56] Göran Everdahl for SVT's Gomorron Sverige gave the film four out of five and described the film as "kitchen sink fantasy" that "gives the vampire story back something it has been missing for a long time: the ability to really frighten us".[57] Expressen and Göteborgs-Posten were less impressed and gave the film three out of five.Expressen criticised it for being unappealing to those uninitiated in vampire films while Göteborgs-Posten believed the supporting characters had lost the emotional depth that made the novel so successful.[58][59]
Reviewers have commented on the beautiful cinematography and its quiet, restrained approach to the sometimes bloody and violent subject matter.[60] KJ Doughton of Film Threat thought the visuals in the ending were fresh and inventive and would be talked about for years to come.[61] Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half out of four, calling it a vampire movie that takes vampires seriously, drawing comparisons to Nosferatu and to Nosferatu the Vampyre. He described it as a story of "two lonely and desperate kids capable of performing dark deeds without apparent emotion", and praised the actors for "powerful" performances in "draining" roles.[62] Ebert later called the film "The best modern vampire movie".[54] One negative review came from Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly, who gave the movie a "C", characterizing it as a "Swedish head-scratcher", with "a few creepy images but very little holding them together".[63]
Awards and nominations
Alfredson won the
Despite being an internationally successful film, Let the Right One In was not submitted by Sweden for the
Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref(s) |
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Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival | 16 – 25 April 2009 | Silver Scream Award | Tomas Alfredson | Won | [71] |
Black Tulip Award | Won | ||||
Austin Fantastic Fest
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2009 | Best Horror Feature | Won | [72] | |
Austin Film Critics Association | 16 December 2008 | Best Foreign Language Film | Won | [73] | |
Australian Film Critics Association | 2009 | Best Foreign Language Film | Won | [74] | |
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
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14 December 2008 | Foreign Language Film | Won | [75] | |
British Academy Film Awards | 21 February 2010 | Best Film Not in the English Language | Nominated | [76] | |
British Independent Film Awards | 6 December 2009 | Best Foreign Film
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Won | [77] | |
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
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8 January 2009 | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated | [78] | |
Calgary International Film Festival | 2008 | Best International Feature | Tomas Alfredson | Won | [79] |
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
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18 December 2008 | Most Promising Filmmaker | Won | [80] | |
Most Promising Performer | Lina Leandersson | Nominated | |||
Edinburgh International Film Festival | 2008 | Rotten Tomatoes Critical Consensus Award | Tomas Alfredson | Won | [42] |
Empire Awards | 28 March 2010
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Best Horror Film | Won | [81] | |
Fant-Asia Film Festival
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2008 | Best European/North — South American Film | Tomas Alfredson | Won | [82] |
Best Director | Won | ||||
Best Film | Won | ||||
Best Photography | Hoyte Van Hoytema | Won | |||
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
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18 March 2008 | Best Foreign Language Film | Won | [83] | |
Göteborg Film Festival
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2008 | Nordic Film Prize | Won | [39] | |
Nordic Vision Award | Hoyte Van Hoytema | Won | |||
Goya Awards | 24 February 2010 | Best European Film | Nominated | [84] | |
Guldbagge Awards | 12 January 2009 | Best Achievement (Bästa prestation) | Eva Norén | Won | [32] |
Best Achievement (Bästa prestation) | Per Sundström, Jonas Jansson, Patrik Strömdahl | Won | |||
Best Cinematography (Bästa foto) | Hoyte Van Hoytema | Won | |||
Best Direction (Bästa regi) | Tomas Alfredson | Won | |||
Best Screenplay (Bästa manuskript) | John Ajvide Lindqvist | Won | |||
Best Film (Bästa film) | John Nordling, Carl Molinder | Nominated | |||
Best Supporting Actor (Bästa manliga biroll) | Per Ragnar | Nominated | |||
Houston Film Critics Society Awards
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17 December 2008 | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominated | [85] | |
International Online Film Critics' Poll | 2009 | Best Film | Nominated | [86] | |
Top Ten Films | Won | ||||
Best Director | Tomas Alfredson | Won | |||
Best Adapted Screenplay | John Ajvide Lindqvist | Nominated | |||
Best Cinematography | Hoyte Van Hoytema | Nominated | |||
Best Film of the Decade | Nominated | ||||
Top Ten Films of the Decade | Won | ||||
Best Director of the Decade | Tomas Alfredson | Nominated | |||
Irish Film and Television Awards
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20 February 2010
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International Film | Nominated | [87] | |
London Film Critics' Circle Awards
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18 February 2010 | Foreign Language Film of the Year | Tomas Alfredson | Won | [88] |
Méliès International Festivals Federation | 9 October 2008 | Méliès d'Or | Won | [69] | |
NatFilm Festival | 2008 | Critics Award | Tomas Alfredson | Won | [89] |
Online Film Critics Society Awards
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19 January 2009 | Best Foreign Language Film | Won | [90] | |
Best Adapted Screenplay | John Ajvide Lindqvist | Won | |||
Breakthrough Filmmaker | Tomas Alfredson | Won | |||
Breakthrough Performance | Lina Leandersson | Won | |||
Kåre Hedebrant | Nominated | ||||
Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival
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2009 | Best Director | Tomas Alfredson | Won | [91] |
Citizen's Choice Award | Won | ||||
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
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15 December 2008 | Best Foreign Language Film | Won | [92] | |
San Francisco Film Critics Circle
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15 December 2008 | Best Foreign Language Film
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Won | [93] | |
Saturn Awards
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25 June 2009 | Best International Film | Won | [94][95] | |
Best Performance by a Younger Actor | Lina Leandersson | Nominated | |||
Best Writing | John Ajvide Lindqvist | Nominated | |||
Sitges Film Festival | 2008 | Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Gold | Tomas Alfredson | Won | [96] |
Toronto After Dark Film Festival | 2008 | Best Feature Film | Won | [97] | |
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
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17 December 2008 | Best Foreign Language Film | Won | [98] | |
Tribeca Film Festival
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2008 | Best Narrative Feature | Tomas Alfredson | Won | [40] |
Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards
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8 December 2008 | Best Foreign Language Film | Won | [99] | |
Woodstock Film Festival | 2008 | Best Narrative Feature | Tomas Alfredson | Won | [100] |
American version
After the release of Let the Right One In took place,
See also
Notes
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Men framförallt kan Tomas Alfredson konsten att berätta i bilder istället för i ord om ett samhälle där hjärtan förvandlats till istappar och var och en får klara sig bäst den kan, men också om kärlek som uppbrott och befrielse, kärlek varm och röd som blod på vit smältande snö
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Förr pratade man om diskbänksrealism — detta är diskbänksfantasy, sagans monster förflyttade till betongstaden. Vilket märkligt nog återger vampyrstoryn något den saknat länge: kraft att verkligen skrämma oss.
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