And considering that all main actors are first- timers, they do a good job! To me it feels like well performed amateur theatre, but as a movie watcher I wish it had been better, I cannot get immersed in what's happening. Nothing bad about the directing, it is good. Some of these shortcuts feels to me that they would be totally incomprehensible if you haven't read the book, but I can be wrong. The depicting of a teenagers life is rather good, even if it is cut short, it serves just as your massage in order to get to the point of magic. The film was produced by the father-son team of Benny Andersson (of ABBA fame) and Ludvig Andersson.This movie seems to presume that you have read the book(s) It follows the story really well but as always have to take shortcuts to fit in the time frame, even though it's allowed 2,5 hours.Of which the first 30 minutes is almost all about massaging you into Engelsfors, a small community in the modern world.
Today it has been translated to over 25 languages, and in 2015 the movie adaptation of The Circle was released. The epic story of teenage witches in a small industrial town, chosen to save the world from the apocalypse, was an instant success both critically and commercially. In this book the unforgettable tv-series My So Called Life and Buffy the Vampire Slayer meet in Twin Peaks. The Circle is 500 suspenseful pages filled with love, magic, nagging parents, homework, death and friendship. Something is hunting them and if they don’t find it and defeat it, it will find them.Ī small industrial town becomes the arena for the final battle between good and evil. They must learn how to work together despite their differences and they have to master the forces that have awakened within them. From this day on, high school is a matter of life and death, literally.
An ancient prophecy states that they are The Chosen Ones. They don’t know why or how they were brought there but they learn that they need each other in order to survive. One night, when a mysterious red moon fills the sky, the girls meet in the park. Everyone except the ones who know the truth. The autumn semester has just started when a student is found dead in one of the school lavatories. They have nothing in common – except they are all hunted by an ancient evil. Surrounded by deep forests where people get lost and disappear. THE ENGELSFORS TRILOGY PART I: THE CIRCLEĮngelsfors.
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