In an age of fragmentation, his movies which have by no means modified are like time-machine journeys again to the quirky gusto of the ’90s, when even an indie trifle dipped in Scandinavian despair may ripple, beneath all of it, with optimism.

In an age of fragmentation, his movies which have by no means modified are like time-machine journeys again to the quirky gusto of the ’90s, when even an indie trifle dipped in Scandinavian despair may ripple, beneath all of it, with optimism.