Offside (2006)

	Directed by: Mårten Klingberg	COUNTRY Sweden GENRE Drama/Sports/Comedy INTERNATIONAL TITLE Offside RUNNING TIME 103 minutes
	Produced by: Carl Clifton
	Written by: Mårten Klingberg Oskar Söderlund

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Peter	Björn Bengtsson
Fredrik	Mats Blomgren
Duncan Miller	Brendan Coyle	½
Sara	Maria Hazell
Boston	Ingvar Hirdwall	½
Tommy	Torkel Petersson	½

Review

Here's a story about as mature and probable as every teenage footballer's fantasy, but why care about that when the film has as much uncorrupted feelgood and spirit as Mårten Klingberg's Offside? The idea is drawn from the realm of magazines such as Buster and Boing, with which every Scandinavian football fanatic has grown up. The most interesting aspect about Klingberg's approach is his look at how life has unfolded for one of those young, Buster-reading kids; the absolutely pivotal position football has in these people's lives – even if they're a down-and-out 6th division player without a job – or perhaps because of that. Offside alternates between lightweight, well-aimed humour and satire, and quite sincere and insightful musings on different slices of life. Conventional dramaturgy with a fresh angle, and with some wonderfully hilarious dialogue.