Foggy Days
2018 · 17m
Directed by Martin Sandin
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
In Stockholm, two individuals fall in love through the haze of the social-media age, in a raw, aching romance stripped of sheen.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A Stockholm love story stripped of sheen sounds like the kind of tasteful melancholy everyone's making right now—but I'd need to see what Sandin does to actually *resist* that consensus, and the premise alone doesn't promise subversion.
Sandin positions this within the lineage of Scandinavian intimacy cinema—tender, formally restrained—and the specificity of social-media alienation as a compositional principle shows curatorial awareness of where romance narratives sit in 2018.
That rawness despite the digital haze suggests Sandin made a deliberate choice about what *not* to show, and how restraint in a 17-minute romance becomes the decision that either collapses into sentimentality or lifts into something true.
Reviews
Sandin's take on love is real. Without the coloured fantasy of hedonistic love, what we get is a discomforting version.