Comedy Queen2022
- Director: Sanna Lenken
- Seen by this director: Min lilla syster
- Based on the book by Jenny Jägerfeld
- Cast: Sigrid Johnson, Oscar Töringe
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- None of them
- Why? Good reviews.
- Seen: 4 February 2024
Sasha (Johnson) is 13. Her mother has
committed suicide. Her father (Töringe) cries all the time. She decides to
become a Comedy Queen to make him laugh.
It’s not so easy. Her jokes are dismally
unfunny and her classmates ridicule her. She shaves off her hair because she
doesn’t want to look like her mother, who had beautiful hair. She’s angry. She
refuses to cry. But she’s determined to make her dad laugh.
Despite the heaviness of severe depression leading to suicide, grief and anger, it’s very close to being too sweet, especially the unlikely ending and using ‘Country Road’ by John Denver to bind daughter, father and dead mother together. That alone knocks a * off the rating. But Johnson and Töringe make it well worth seeing.
3
½ * of 5
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