Swedish Movie -
HJÄRTAT - The Heart
I look forward to see that flick soon.
The Heart follows Mika, a young and wild woman who works freelance as a photographer and loves partying, drinking, and socialising. She meets Tesfai, who is studying to become a music producer, and she falls in love with him. However, she lives in Gothenburg and he lives in Stockholm, so the two must survive as a long-distance relationship for a little while. The film jumps through this period and heads straight to Mika and Tesfai moving in together in Stockholm. While there is an intense passion between the two, it doesn’t take long for Mika to realise Tesfai has personal issues and low self-esteem when it comes to intimacy, and soon they end up being a couple that spends all the time on either side of the couch watching television and not going out with their friends. Mika gets frustrated, believing it’s all her fault, and while Tesfai tries to reassure her, the relationship slowly breaks down. When they separate, Mika goes on a ‘girls trip’ with her friends to Ibiza, yet she can’t stop thinking about Tesfai. In the end, though, the two have to figure out where to take their relationship.
The lead actress/writer/director also directed the 2011 Swedish short film Banga Inte (Unruly)
which also has IR in it.
Gothenburg 1999. The last days of the summer holidays. Thongs, weird drinks and tracksuit bottoms. 15-year-old Mickan and her friends are out and about round the clock. In a world without away from adults, Mickan struggles to come to terms with sex, love, friendship and social hierarchies. Who's a slut and who's a player? Who decides when the game gets serious? Who backs you up and who chickens out?