A touching comic crowdpleaser that may call for a tissue or two by the end, “A Man Called Ove” is Swedish helmer Hannes Holm’s irresistible adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s eponymous ...

At nearly every turn in the Swedish dramedy “A Man Called Ove,” gooey redemption clichés threaten to undermine its otherwise edgy narrative. Between a stray fluffy cat, spunky new neighbors ...

A Man Called Ove is one of the darkest and funniest black comedies I’ve seen in quite some time. The first 10 minutes alone feature an untimely firing, a visit to the graveyard and two suicide ...

A Man Called Ove won't win Best Foreign Film this year, nor should it, but it's worth your time, and it's easy to see why this proudly populist movie was a smash hit in Sweden. Men in white ...

A touching comic crowdpleaser that may call for a tissue or two by the end, “A Man Called Ove” is Swedish helmer Hannes Holm’s irresistible adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s eponymous ...

The remarkable true story of Gustaf Håkansson, affectionately known as "Stålfarfar" or "Steel Grandpa," is being brought to the big screen by Strive Stories, the Stockholm-based production ...

A Man Called Ove 2016, PG-13, 116 min. Directed by Hannes Holm. Starring Rolf Lassgård, Bahar Pars, Filip Berg, Ida Engvoll, Zozan Akgün, Tobias Almborg, Klas Wiljergård.

You feel Ove, the bitter man, whose monochrome life was filled with colour by his wife Sonja, and when she left, she took the colour with her, quoting Backman. It’s not a novel trope or arc; it ...

So A Man Called Ove was born. This word-of-mouth bestseller has sold more than 650,000 copies in Sweden and has been a hit across Europe. It deserves to do at least as well here.

A touching comic crowdpleaser that may call for a tissue or two by the end, “A Man Called Ove” is Swedish helmer Hannes Holm’s irresistible adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s eponymous ...

A touching comic crowdpleaser that may call for a tissue or two by the end, “A Man Called Ove” is Swedish helmer Hannes Holm’s irresistible adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s eponymous bestselling novel.