Miffo

5.8
2003 1 hr 45 min Drama , Comedy

Tobias is the new, idealistic priest in a suburb but he soon learns that his flock is quite uninterested in Christianity. However, he befriends Carolina, a chain smoking woman his age, wheelchair-bound since birth. It is opposites attract although their backgrounds are different.

  • Cast:
    Jonas Karlsson , Livia Millhagen , Ingvar Hirdwall , Kajsa Ernst , Liv Mjönes , Fyr Thorvald Strömberg , Carina Boberg

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Reviews

GrimPrecise
2004/04/12

I'll tell you why so serious

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CommentsXp
2004/04/13

Best movie ever!

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FirstWitch
2004/04/14

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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Raymond Sierra
2004/04/15

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

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essankay
2004/04/16

A young priest from an affluent background with frustrations and doubts about about his faith requests a transfer to a failing church in one of the dreary suburbs of Gothenburg, Sweden (NOT Stockholm as the fellow from Stockholm that wrote another review on here stated).While going door to door in his new, disinterested parish he comes across a young lady in a wheelchair. The two share an attraction, but he has trepidations about dating someone on welfare and in a wheelchair.This is an interesting dramedy with some fine performances. It dares to tackle some subjects that are largely taboo in most cinema. The characters and most of the dialog rings true. On the whole, an interesting Swedish film.

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wbbybn
2004/04/17

I enjoyed this movie. The opening minutes were especially good, I thought, and they really grabbed my interest with their humour and unexpectedness (although I had no idea what the movie was about before I saw it anyway). I don't know that I felt much empathy with any of the characters, but they were interesting, the story was watchable if not overly gripping and the funny parts were genuinely funny. I don't know that the deadbeat boyfriend of Carola was very believable, but there was drama, romance, sex, comedy, misunderstanding, loss and love. What more could you want from a bit of light entertainment? It wasn't brilliant, but it was good fun. Why was it called 'Miffo' though?

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holm_victor
2004/04/18

The film was about guy called Tobias who is a priest. He just moved out from his old apartment and moved into his "X" girlfriends apartment in Uppsala. He starts working in a church but no people is coming to his assemblies. So Tobias decides do go knock on doors to decide people to come to church. Every body is turning him down. But when he almost has given up his hopes a woman comes out of her apartment door. The woman sits in a wheelchair. She rools up to Tobias and says shes sorry that she coulden't answer the door before because she was in the restroom. She said her name was Carola. Tobias and Carola goes to a restaurant and eat pizza. After a couple of weeks Carola's fake dad died so Tobias has to ceep the funeral. the day after he and Carola goes to water the plants in Tobias parents apartment because they are on a holiday.

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d_hahne
2004/04/19

The story was pretty weak and after one hour the movie felt long and boring from time to time. I'm not gonna spoil the end but i can tell you the movie's better the longer on the timeline you've gone through. Overall a good Swedish movie but i don't think it's playing in the same league as Daniel Lind Lagerlöfs previous works.

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