FREUD LEAVING HOME

Angelique Cohen, a 25-year-old woman, goes by the nickname “Freud” because of her fondness for psychoanalysis. But what would Sigmund have made of the fact that Angelique still wears braces on her teeth and lives in her parent's Stockholm residence? There she languishes, stunted under the benevolent dominance of her Holocaust-survivor mother Rosha. As Rosha's 60th-birthday party approaches, the children dutifully assemble; homosexual David jets in from sunny Florida, while Deborah makes the pilgrimage all the way from her Orthodox settlement in Israel. Freud, however, only needs to venture from her bedroom. The girl nurses dreams of finally leaving home and searching for love and freedom, but when Rosha suddenly falls ill it looks like another impediment has been thrown into Freud's path to independence. Abruptly she bolts the now-chaotic household, savoring the joys of the summer countryside and the chance companionship of a friendly biker she picks up in a discotheque. Back at the Cohens', denial and dysfunction have put Rosha's milestone celebration on hold, indefinitely. It takes Freud, the nitwit, the nudnick, one who wouldn't grow up, to finally make the family wake up and face some uncomfortable truths. (In Swedish with English subtitles)