Docking the Boat (1965)
A group of party goers have trouble getting their boat ashore on a small island. The inhabitants of the island try to help, often with the help of an old sailor, and the results are absurd and hilarious.
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Fresh and Exciting
This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Sometimes it's hard to dock the boat. In this 1965 movie by Tage Danielsson, featuring his friend Hans Alfredsson, the two in Sweden normally referred to as Hasse&Tage, it becomes the death of those failing to do so.Holiday makers fail to dock a boat. Thats the plot. And it takes a long time for them to fail to dock the boat. Much too long. Inbetween beginning and end of the movie there's nothing else. Just an ongoing failure to dock the boat. Well, Hans Alfredsson eats a banana, but that doesn't count as a plot.Hasse&Tage must have had just about as hard a time to come up with a plot for the movie, as it's hard for the holiday makers to dock the boat. Why this movie is loved by many Swedes, I fail to see. It's simply not funny. It's just slow. Very Swedish, indeed. Maybe that's why it's considered funny in Sweden. It's slow and nothing really happens and at the end everyone dies.
A gloriously crazy film, superb acting all over the line and so funny you'll laugh every time you see it. Possibly the last truly funny Swedish movie (sadly). 10 out of 10, and a golden star to Hans Alfredson for his wonderful portrayal of the old gobbledygook-speaking fisherman.
A strange film that dose not look like any other film.It is a very funny comedy about: A group of people arrives by boat to attend a party on a small island. They experience great difficulties while trying to go ashore. All the alcohol for the party is on the boat while the people on the island have all the food, and the only neighbor on the island, Garbo, is not as friendly as one would wish. Hasse Alfredson is the funniest in the film as the angry fisher man and it is impossible to hear what he says.Don´t miss the parody on Rififi! Rating: 4,5 out of 5
This movie is probably the best Swedish movie ever. It has humor, drama, excellent actors, and an absurd intrigue, which never the less is totally logical in every detail. However, if you are not a Swede in the age above 35, It is probably completely incomprehensible for you. Compare it to an insider joke that only could be understood by a certain group of somehow related people. The movie is making fun of mannerisms and archetypes that has already disappeared from a Swedish society which was changing rapidly even when the movie was made, and which is totally different today.