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45
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35
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28
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28
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22
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Daybreak
Newmarket Films
MPAA RATING: R for language including sexual references
Starring
Pernilla August,
Jacob Eklund,
Marie Richardson,
Leif Andrée,
Peter Andersson,
Ann Petrén,
Sanna Krepper,
and
Ingvar Hirdwall
Daybreak is a film about people in a state of change. It is a story about the need for a chance in order to survive; it is a story about love being greater than hate. (Newmarket Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
Foreign
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Björn Runge
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Björn Runge
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: February 2, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
108 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Sweden |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Swedish (with English subtitles) |
Original title "Om jag vänder mig om"; Blue Angel and Silver Berlin Bear (to the ensemble cast), 2004 Berlin International Film Festival

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Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Masterfully paced and constructed, and the performances are memorable.

80
Variety
Gunnar Rehlin
One of the most impressive films to come out of Sweden in the past year. Ace acting, powerful direction and engaging storylines.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
To the extent that this difficult but ultimately rewarding film has a message, it's that you can't run away from who you are.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
It maintains a strong enough sense of squirmy humanity that its characters' epiphanies and emotional growth feel both hard-earned and richly deserved.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The snappish domestic infighting is effectively staged, yet beneath its ''raw'' atmosphere Daybreak traffics in pop-sociological clichés.

63
New York Post
Debra Birnbaum
Dark, depressing drama.

60
Empire
Patrick Peters
Shifting between bourgeois soap, tabloid parable and tale of the unexpected, this three-storied study of salvation in extremis makes for unsettling but compelling viewing.

60
LA Weekly
Kim Morgan
Though the acting is uniformly excellent, especially Petren in her bilious rage, Daybreak doesn't provide anything like the cumulative catharsis of, say, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf." We don't really care about these people - we just want someone to make them stop.

60
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Strongly acted by a highly competent ensemble.

60
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
If Daybreak weren't so powerfully acted, its accumulating anguish would be too much to bear. As it is, all three couples, especially Knut and Mona, verge on caricature.

60
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Runge's coolly photographed, intricately plotted feature is always interesting in its execution, but disappointingly pat in its resolution.

50
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Involving and sometimes comically bleak but never fully convincing as drama.

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
If you're going to put us through hell, you'd better make it worth our while. Though Daybreak boasts a couple of minor insights and a compelling performance from Pernilla August, only the masochistically inclined will consider them sufficient reward.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
The characters are so over-the-top with emotional pain -- that they are hardly credible as characters.

40
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
A studied, overwrought look into Personal Crisis and Redemption.


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