![]() ![]() His dark-haired new neighbour Eli (Lina Leandersson) is his yang, also quiet, but worldlier, unknowable and strange. Fair-haired Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant) is the yin quiet, sensitive and bullied, shimmering with repressed anger and hurt. The film tells the story of two lost souls, adrift in a world of inky black nights and feathery snow. "Reaffirms your faith in cinema with its startling originality." Based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, it quickly spawned an American remake and a celebrated stage show (which originated at Dundee Rep), but this 2009 film is for many, the version that we first fell in love with. Every now and then, a film arrives fully-formed, like a bolt from the blue (or in this case, from the dark) and reaffirms your faith in cinema with its startling originality, and Tomas Alfredson’s 2009 film Let the Right One In is one of these. ![]()
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