Je m’appelle Agneta (now streaming on Netflix) is the French-language title of a Swedish film, and I’ll make this more confusing by sharing that the English translation is My Name is Agneta. But let’s untangle that knot: the movie’s about a Swedish woman who relocates to France, and I am an English speaker who couldn’t quite tell whether the English subtitles were translations of French or Swedish. The good news is, that doesn’t matter at all, and one shouldn’t get hung up on it. Directed by Johanna Runevad, the film is a pared-down version of the Eat Pray Love formula, a midlife-crisis dramedy in which a woman escapes her drab reality to rediscover herself in an idyllic locale. Eva Melander stars, and she’s no Julia Roberts – but that’s entirely the point. Like I said, this isn’t a glamorous quasi-fairy tale, and it’s all the better for it.
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