Stockholm, My Love (2016)

Stockholm, My Love: Directed by Mark Cousins. With Neneh Cherry. Stockholm My Love is a city symphony, a love letter to Stockholm, the fiction debut of director Mark Cousins and the acting debut of musician Neneh Cherry. It follows one woman’s footsteps through the streets of her native city, on a journey of recovery from a bad thing that happened to her exactly one year before. It’s an exploration of grief, identity and the power of architecture and urbanism to shape lives, and a celebration of the power of walking and looking to make us all feel just a little bit better. With new music by Neneh Cherry, old music by Benny Andersson (of ABBA) and Franz Berwald, and images by Christopher Doyle and Mark Cousins.

“Stockholm is not the only syndrome.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Dadu0026quot; is not the only word.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNeneh Cherry is not the only actor.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt reminded me a little of Robinson in Space (1997). From the description on IMDB of that much earlier work: u0026quot;Robinson is commissioned to investigate the unspecified u0026quot;problem of England.u0026quot; The narrator describes his seven excursions, with the unseen Robinson, around the country.u0026quot;u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut here the narration is drab and tired-out, so low-key. At any moment, it seemed like Neneh Cherryu0026#39;s character would decide she was more in the mood for a trip to Dignitas than a snailu0026#39;s pace mooch around Stockholm.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA film that makes you realise it is not inappropriate to walk out of a home cinema. (I gave it 24 minutes before I found myself out on the street.)”