Being Bo Widerberg - English subtitles

'Being Bo Widerberg' is the story of the acclaimed and eccentric director who in the shadow of Ingmar Bergman became Sweden’s most influential film-maker.

As candid and complex as its subject, this intimate portrait film takes us from Bo Widerberg’s early days as an author and film critic from working-class Malmö to his career as a celebrated and influential director.

More than just an introduction to his impressive filmography, the film uses soul-searching archival interviews with Widerberg, and unvarnished testimony from family, colleagues, and friends, to reveal his turbulent personal life. Directors including Olivier Assayas, Mia Hansen-Løve, and Ruben Östlund, discuss Widerberg’s influence on their own films.