She sees that sports can have lessons about feeling like part of a team and about being inspired to turn things around when you are behind. It is not dirt to be attacked with baking soda it is a statement. One of the kids on the team explains that scrawling is just making marks, but graffiti shows that you exist. She also learns that there is a difference between "scrawling" marks on a wall and graffiti. Does she realize, in accepting a job as a coach, that people will expect her to know something about the game? Or that telling 10-year-olds to clean up the glass from a window smashed by their soccer ball might not be a great idea? Or that moving to a new town where she does not know anyone will mean that she has to find a place to live? But she finds a handyman to fix the window and Sven ( Anders Mossling), a warm-hearted policeman, suggests that the visually impaired daughter of the former coach - a former soccer player herself - might have a room available. Thankfully, he and director Tuva Novotny keep the characters astringent and his tone wry, so it never gets cuddly or cloying.īritt-Marie is so stoic for much of the film that we are not sure she really understands what is happening to her. "Britt-Marie Was Here" is based on a novel by Fredrik Backman ( A Man Called Ove), whose themes often include cranky people who isolate themselves and community sports that bring people together. But she does know about cleaning, and the rec center is a mess, covered with graffiti on the outside and filled with grime and clutter on the inside.
Britt-Marie does not know anything about soccer, coaching, or children. The job includes coaching a soccer team of 10-year-olds. She leaves him and takes the only job she is offered: a temporary position as a youth leader at a soon-to-be-closed recreation center in Borg, a remote and struggling small town. Baking soda can get out stains, but it cannot protect Britt-Marie from wrenching disappointment when she is confronted with her husband's affair. "Baking soda solves more of the world's problems than football." "I've never in my life felt the urge to kick something," she says.
She has no interest in sports and would rather keep the house tidy, usually with her favorite cleanser. When he is at home, he watches football (soccer). When her husband's business takes him out of town, she stays home. As a young girl, she dreamed of going to Paris with her free-spirited sister. Doing the laundry, making dinner, knowing what to expect are what make Britt-Marie feel safe.
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