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Why this pick
Its urgent story of a mother fighting to keep her children has Charter’s raw parental desperation, institutional pressure, and refusal to reduce a painful situation to simple villains.
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MOVIE2020 1h 34m SWE
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
After a divorce, Alice hasn't seen her children in two months as she awaits a custody verdict. When her son calls her in the middle of the night, Alice takes action, abducting the children on an illicit charter trip to the Canary Islands.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Ane Dahl Torp
Alice
Sverrir Gudnason
Mattias
Troy Lundkvist
Vincent