idgleep Absolutely great movie. In the style of "Pulp Fiction" or "Trainspotting" (sort of). Very pulpy and alive. Hilarious full characters and wonderfuls plot development with plenty of hilarious lines and laughable twists and turns! RENT IT!! You won't be sorry. When I see most movies I feel like I can figure out the plot within moments. I always have the feeling that I know what is going on next and I am usually right, but this movie was different. It kept me on my toes and had a great presentation ( original adaptation of an old standard). "Smala Susie" is definitely one of my new top ten movies of all time. I rented it and have bought it shortly afterwards!!

Brevity In the cinema world, there aren't many more irritating things than a film pretending to be bursting with energy. Why am I saying this here, you ask. Well, I answer, halfway through one (read: me) grows a bit numb of all this trickery. And before you draw any faulty conclusions: I like this film.On the bright side, the look is a breath of fresh air for a Nordic film. Kjell Bergqvist is good, and expectedly so, I gather from his history. The humour works often, the deadpan parts especially. ("The ending of Pulp..." Clever in an incidental way, and in an intentional one too, I presume. Funny in any case.)But there are the flashback-often-within-flashback structure, characters that are, like, so cuhrayzeee (including the "film buff" of whom I shan't say a word though was going to), the would-be edgy restlessness and in-your-face movie references that are bound to annoy some and be of excellence to some. It almost ceases to interest "one" during the final half, or, in other words already said, me grows a bit numb of it.Those who think "Chain of Fools" is brilliant (and golly, there are those) will probably find this very appealing. Nevertheless (notice the tone), this works quite sufficiently, and any non-realistic Nordic film is of course always welcome. And just to clarify things: I like this.

Peaks Teresa Fabik (Hip Hip Hora!) recently complained about how no Swedish filmmakers dared to do something really twisted. I am sure she hasn't seen Smala Sussie.What we're talking about is basically a Swedish Pulp Fiction, only better. And what it lacks in violence, it makes up in clever dialogue.Great comedy is a rare talent. Because it isn't what you say, but rather how you say it, that is important. I'm not sure that non-Swedish viewers will be as pleased as I am, because a lot of the subtle humour is lost between the subtitles. I hope, however, that nobody fails to notice the wonderful performance by Björn Starrin (Pölsa). Like a few others of the cast, Björn is not a professional actor. Smala Sussie is in fact his first movie experience ever. Yet he pulls off one of the funniest performances I've seen in a long, long time. Björn very much deserved the Guldbagge-nomination he didn't get.Pölsa's words of wisdom have in fact become some kind of religion to me. A religion where hon med fönen is the son, Pölsa the father, and Uffe Malmros the holy creative spirit.

stensson There have for the last decade been quite a lot of Swedish films about the Swedish world outside Stockholm. The stockholmers have had a lot to laugh about. Little is known here about how the smalltown Swedish inhabitants take that.But "Smala Sussie" ("Slim Sussie" in English) is funny in more ways than being a hillbilly comedy. The acting by young Björn Starrin, Jonas Rimeika and Tuva Novotny is great. There might be a place for a discussion whether murder and using drugs really is a funny subject. Here it is so however, although everything is far from the Tarantino treatment.But you have to be Swedish to appreciate this. Or maybe Scandinavian.