Jalla! Jalla! (2000)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Josef Fares

Writer:

Josef Fares (writer)

Release Date:

22 December 2000 (Sweden)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

Memfis Film presenterar en skön rulle av Josef Fares

Plot:

Roro, a foreign worker in Swedish parks, loves his girlfriend but is about to marry another girl to prevent her from being sent back to Lebanon...

Plot Keywords:

Lebanon | Love | Wedding | Arranged Marriage | Immigrant

Awards:

4 wins & 4 nominations

Cast

Fares Fares	...	Roro
Torkel Petersson	...	Måns
Tuva Novotny	...	Lisa
Laleh Pourkarim	...	Yasmin
Leonard Terfelt	...	Paul
Jan Fares	...	Farsan
Sofi Ahlström Helleday	...	Jenny
Benyam Eriksson	...	Benson
Khatoun Fares	...	Farmor
Abdulahad Fares	...	Abdul
Ingemar Carlehed	...	Pappa Ulf
Harry Goldstein	...	Sexbutiksägare
Tommy Andersson	...	Peter
Christer Fjällström	...	Polis
Jacob Tamm	...	Simon Pramsten

Also Known As:

The Best Man's Wedding (Australia)

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

Sweden

Language:

Swedish | Arabic

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Iceland:LH | New Zealand:R16 | Australia:MA (cable rating) | Australia:M (original rating) | Finland:K-11 | France:U | Germany:12 | Netherlands:AL | Norway:11 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud)

Filming Locations:

Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden

Company:

Memfis Film

Trivia:

The scene were a little girl runs after Lisa saying, "Lisa, wait Lisa. Wait," was not planned. It was a little girl who had threw sand at 'Torkel Pettersson', who finally threw some sand back. So she went away and ended up on set believing it was all real.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the first scene where the Electric Golf Car is running slowly on the street there are two cars behind it, blowing their horns. The next time we see the golf car in the same street some days later, the same cars are seen behind it.

Quotes:

Polis: [Måns is arrested by the police after throwing out furniture] Well, how did this happen?
Måns: Ehm, what?
Polis: Well, there's furniture on the street, under your balcony...
Måns: I accidentally dropped them...
Polis: Really? How?
Måns: I don't know... I was going to... refurbish... a little and then i tripped... it was some little... edge that...
Polis: On the balcony?
Måns: Yes, exactly...
Polis: With a whole drawer, a TV and an aquarium?
Måns: Mm...

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Kopps (2003)

Soundtrack:

If I Used To Love You

Nothing new, but very positive and funny

Notice that the similar movie as 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding', with the almost same topics dealing with (trouble of young eastern immigrants with their elders and their newly made relationships) succeeded to become so much popular and profitable.

Both movies are positive, funny and relaxing, but the reason that I prefer Jalla Jalla is that I had no impression that this movie was made to be "holywoodish", as I had watching "the wedding". This one is much more natural and relaxed, and does not present the immigrants as bunch of conservative, raw and uncivilized people.

After a lot much more praised Holywood crap, this is a movie I watched without having a sense of wasted time after.