'Britt-Marie Was Here' stars Pernilla August as a 60-something Swedish woman who leaves her husband and ends up coaching a kids' soccer team in a small town.
Unfortunately, the title character in the Swedish import “Britt-Marie Was Here,” based on another Backman book — and a kind of distant literary cousin to Ove — isn’t unique or captivating enough to power an entire film, especially one this familiar and undemanding.
Britt-Marie is a dowdy, regimented 63-year-old homemaker haunted by childhood loss who leaves her distracted husband of 40 years after discovering he’s been unfaithful. In need of work, she takes the one position offered: a soccer coach at a crumbling youth recreation center in a rural village. How Britt-Marie is paired with this job is a mystery: She admittedly wouldn’t know a soccer ball from a meatball. And despite the efforts of director Tuva Novotny and her coscriptors, Anders August and Oystein Karlsen, to square this, the film can’t quite surmount its fanciful conceit.Britt-Marie digs into her new career and improbably wins over her “Bad News Bears”-like charges plus a smitten local cop and her near-blind new roommate .
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