Monica Z (2013)

Monica Z: Directed by Per Fly. With Edda Magnason, Sverrir Gudnason, Kjell Bergqvist, Vera Vitali. The world famous Swedish jazz singer, actress and icon Monica Zetterlund’s life through stardom and hardship.

“Letu0026#39;s first make clear that Edda Magnason is fantastic as Monica Zetterlund, an icon in Swedish jazz music and entertainment. Not at least when she sings. Itu0026#39;s almost scary.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut the script about her life outside stage is a melodrama on at best average level. The chronology is strange, 15 years pass and her daughter doesnu0026#39;t get older and nothing new is put to the common movie myth about the self-burning artist and her soul.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWeu0026#39;re quite in love with the early 60s now. Both we who were where and the rest of us. Which doesnu0026#39;t mean weu0026#39;re so interested in this way of romanticizing it in this way, even the destructiveness it kept”