The new film by acclaimed Swedish film director, Sherburt Bergmun.
‘Skon På Papperskorgen’ (‘The Shoe on the Bin’). What begins as a seemingly innocent piece of footwear dangling on top of a waste receptacle soon turns into the calling card of a madman.
Police inspector Kalle Alexander is called to the scene of a crime where the body of a young man lies dead. Nearby a note attached to one singular shoe atop a bin speaks of cataclysmic actions and further deaths in the future. He has very little to go on but after ten years in the job, he’s more than ready and prepared to get started.
He has a drinking problem, he smokes too much, he can’t make connections with anyone and leads a solitary life since his wife ran off with the local chemist. There’s a cat from a neighbouring flat who may well be his only friend.
When you’re faced with life and death though, friends are the last thing that you need. Kalle will find himself both in the firing line and gripping the trigger as he chases leads down in the most disgusting and darkest recesses of the city: he’ll scour every shoe shop, browse every Etsy listing in the surrounding area and he’ll even make his explosive presence known at the shoe factory downtown.
Alfred Binko (the award-winning actor of ‘Get up, Get off’ and ‘The Room around the Curtains’) stars in a career-defining role alongside veteran character actors Klaudia Shinn (‘Carry on, Mr. Scrappenberg’), Veronika Graaten (‘Solitary Mammals’) and Dhillon Ratiz (‘A Man for Many Flowers’). Ably abetted by the deft and kinetic cinematography of Shalein Tracker and a plump orchestral score by Gérard Picko, ‘The Shoe on the Bin’ is a modern Scandinavian classic that will show you the heart of darkness that can lie within the wonderland of everyday menace.
5 comments on “‘Skon På Papperskorgen’”
I think the last Swedish film I watched was “A Moose for All Seasons” starring Bjorn Fjordsson as a hapless moose farmer struggling to make ends meet in a world where moose don’t need farming and there’s no market for anything to do with them. It was as erotic as it was hilarious.
Sounds marvellous. I have pre-ordered the 4K blu ray today.
Hooray.
You’ll love it. But my advice is to skip the straight-to-video sequel which I mainly remember for its demoralising two-hour food fight using only vol au vents. Swedish audiences love that stuff but it left me cold.
Sounds like your typical straight-to-VHS Disney sequel. No double pack for me.
Cold. Cold like leftover vol au vents. Better that than vole au vents.
You never get leftover vole au vents. They’re just too tasty.