If you loved My Life as a Dog, try A Man Called Ove
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theyboth carry the cozy, devastating, foreign gem mood tags, and they sit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to My Life as a Dog, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What A Man Called Ove is
Here's a film that thinks it knows how to thaw a grumpy old man. Ove is a widower maintaining a tight grip on his neighborhood. But his routine is disrupted when a young family moves in next door and their matriarch runs over his mailbox. It's manipulative, but it works.

