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The
Crown Jewels
(2011)
Kronjuvelerna
(The Crown Jewels) is a
Swedish drama where
Fragancia (Alicia
Vikander) and Richard
(Bill Skarsgård from
Hemlock Grove), born on
the same day at the same
hospital, will be linked
together forever whether
they like it or not.
Fragancia has been
arrested for shooting
Richard and in jail, she
tells her story to the
detective. On the day of
their birth, Richard is
dropped by his father and
needs a plate in his head,
but is slightly affected
by this. Fragancia and
Richard join the local
kids ice hockey team with
Fragancia marginalised
because she's a girl
although she quite good
and Richard pushed hard by
his father to be the next
hockey star so at least
he's good at something,
but Richard is more
interested in Fragancia.
One day,
Pettersson-Jonsson (Björn
Gustafsson as an adult)
joins the team and
Fragancia instantly falls
for him and he just
happens to be an excellent
player, so much so that he
beats Richard to the
position on the Swedish
national team, where from
there, Pettersson-Jonsson
becomes an instant
sensation and not just for
his hockey skills.
Richard's father (Loa
Falkman) takes out his
failure on he and his
mother resulting in his
mother leaving. Meanwhile,
things seem to be going
well for the Fernandez
family until one day,
Fragancia's mother
Marianne (Alexandra
Rapaport) is struck down
with a sickness and
Fragancia's father
Fernandez (Michalis
Koutsogiannakis) is sacked
from his job at the shoe
factory owned by Richard's
father . Things get worse
when Fragancia's brother
Jésus, who has Down
Syndrome, goes missing
presumably drowned after
an incident with Richard,
who is distraught, leading
to Fragancia's thirst for
revenge. With more tragedy
to come for the Fernandez
family, Fragancia becomes
more determined to kill
Richard, but did she shoot
Richard or was it someone
else who has it in for
him.
A total downer of a movie
with so much tragedy and
bad stuff happening it's
hard to be positive about
the movie, but it's not
bad. Feeling a bit like a
dark fairy tale, it is
told in a whimsical way
that goes a long way to
countering the misery and
the ending is never in
doubt, but this is a solid
tale with signs of the
things that come from
Alicia.
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