Your Image Consultants Share Their Movie Picks

We don’t watch as many movies during the summertime. Canadian summers are too short. But a couple of rainy days drove us to Netflix and we saw two great films that we wanted to share with you. Don’t worry, they’re not foreign films (although if you’ve been reading our blog or newsletter you know we enjoy foreign movies) nor are they gun-toting summer blockbusters. They are independent films that deal with real people, real emotions and relationships – the type of movies we’ve come to love.

Your Image Consultants Share Their Movie Picks

As It Is in Heaven

We used to let subtitles stand in the way of watching foreign films but now that we have gotten over this we have found so many movie gems. Recently we saw a tremendous Academy Award nominated Swedish film called As It Is in Heaven directed by Kay Pollak. It stars Michael Nykvist (the journalist in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo films) in a riveting performance. You forget that you are watching a film because it feels like real life.

He plays a famous conductor, whose career is cut short due to poor health, who returns to his childhood village (the Swedish scenery reminds us of Canadian winter). We feel like flies on the wall as he confronts demons from his past, struggles with his lack of social skills and introversion and begins to slowly connect with people in the village.