the 76-year-old Peter Belli has, since in 1967 he made his debut in the hippie-the short film “Thomas outlaw’, appeared in a wide range of movies and tv shows, but mainly in more or less peripheral roles.
In director Johannes Nyholm’s ‘Koko-di Koko-da’ – with its quirky title from a Swedish nursery – play the semi-retired rock singer, however, an important role.
Even as a pervert murderer. It looks like otherwise, not the nice man. And it might, therefore, have been a good idea.
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Johannes Nyholm spillefilmsdebuterede in 2016, with the fine ‘the Giant’, which quite convincingly blended the realist of the fantastic. A mix, which at all does not work in the Danish-Swedish co-production ‘Koko-di Koko-da’, who want to be both emotional, grotesque, comical and creepy. None of the parts succeed.
We meet the couple Elin and Tobias, who during a holiday in Denmark lose their little daughter without any further explanation. Three years later we meet them again on the tent trip in the Swedish forests, where they supposedly should try to find together on the other side of grief. The latter is, however, something we must guess us. As most things else in this film.
To leave a big part of the story to the viewer’s own imagination, can be an effective sleight of hand. It can also be the result of a poor delivered story. Here mainly talk about the latter.
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Elin wakes up early in the morning in the tent and going out to pee. Here she meets Mog (Belli), an older distinguished gentleman, and his two assistants (children?) that looks like something from a bad gothic music video, as well as two dogs, one of which is death. A meeting that ends bloody.
we played the same scenario – with greater or lesser variations in a total of six times. And so ends the movie. It may be supposed, that we need to see the ‘Koko-di Koko-da’ as an allegory of a relationship that has fallen irrevocably from each other due to a tragedy. Possibly.
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Since at no time come under the skin of the two, you are right, however, quickly care about them and their fate – as you so even to be a witness to several times. They also are pisseirriterende, does not make the situation better. Nor that the three stragglers, as shown enough to be a little disturbing, most of all appears the involuntarily comical.
Much can you say about Peter Belli, but scary he is not.
‘Koko-di Koko-da’ is most similar to a thin rehash of the David Lynch added Michael Hanekes ‘Funny Games’, and Harold Ramis’ ‘A new day threatens’, and the whole thing is almost ubehjælpeligt clumsy screwed together. The playing time of just 85 minutes, actually feels twice as long, and the only redeeming feature is the two embedded animated sequences, which has a quite peculiar uheldssvanger poetry.
They can not, however, change the overall impression of a film that will very much more than it can. It is actually a little tåkrummende most of the time. How to have tricked Belli with the galley, do the gods know. It can hardly be the economy, as the film also looks pretty cheap out. Maybe it all was just a nightmare? In this case, a very soporific ones.
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