As It Is in Heaven (Så som i himmelen) (2004)

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If I recall it correctly, my wife made me watched this flick. Indeed, I think it was her boss at the time who really loved the damned thing so he lent her this film on DVD. In all fairness, I have to admit that this movie was a big international success and it was even nominated for the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film (it eventually lost to the much superior ‘Mar adentro’) , s... read more

A successful international conductor suddenly interrupts his career and returns alone to his childhood village in Norrland, in the far north of Sweden.It doesn't take long before he is asked to come and listen to the fragment of a church choir, which practises every Thursday in the parish hall. Just come along and give a little bit of good advice. He can't say no, and from that moment, nothing in the village is the same again. The choir develops and grows. He makes both friends and enemies. And he finds love.