After The Unthinkable (2018) the Swedish collective Crazy Pictures returns with UFO Sweden. A film by SF exuding synths and neons in a 100% upies atmosphere presented in the section « Third Kind » of the NIFFF... Attention, imminent saucer takeoff!
Third guy meetings?
Persuaded that the sudden disappearance of his exuberant father is due to aliens, Denise will enlist alongside a club of brass-cassés hunters of saucers: UFO Sweden. So what about this science fiction adventure film (or is it the reverse?), signing the return of the Swedish collective Crazy Pictures after the noticed The Unthinkable ?
Technical maestria
First thing to note is the technical maestria of the film. In addition to licked photography, we are dealing with a collective that can create a powerful image without losing itself in the overt digital effects... Whether it's the sequence in the barn, car racing-suits or more SF segments, nothing ever sins on the side of the picture (despite a budget that is guessed (very?) below American productions). And besides pure technique, UFO Sweden is served by a casting of characters decidedly well chosen for their roles.
Writer Patatras
And yes, the other side of the medal is that UFO Sweden looks like a proto-Stranger Things overflowing with formal audacity but simply copying a sick recipe (visual and script). Brightly pomping Spielberg (and consorts), surfing the wave ofighties and ticking all the boxes of the genre (orphan, bad scientists, recurring nostalgic music, etc.), UFO Sweden unfortunately never stands out. Each scene seems to be extracted from a preconceived matrix, delivering only a glubi-boulga from already seen to the spectator certainly caught by the story (as one would be caught by Stranger Things) but who will soon forget the credits finished.
Americanization of the image
Too bad, because there was potential. Just the situation of history in Sweden would have allowed the collective to distinguish itself by filming the landscapes and a Scandinavian context... Unfortunately, they are content to Americanize their cities and streets. Even the forest parts do not stand out from a sequence that could have been turned across the Atlantic, without even mentioning the segment in the industrial complex that seems to be a copy-paste of what is found in Stranger Things.
Anyway, UFO Sweden, it is a good moment of cinema in perspective and an attractive promise for the continuation of this collective, which delivers us here, unfortunately, that a well-run but not sufficiently identified already seen.
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