The Gullspång Miracle

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The Gullspång Miracle

2023

1h 48m

Documentary

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A seemingly divine premonition leads Norwegian sisters Kari and May to buy an apartment in the small Swedish town of Gullspång. To their surprise, the seller looks remarkably similar to their older sister Astrid, who committed suicide thirty years earlier. What's even more odd is that this doppelgänger used to go by "Lita," the same nickname as their deceased sister. What begins as an eerie story of destiny, faith and improbable coincidence soon becomes a Pandora's Box of stranger-than-fiction revelations and awkwardly comical mishaps in this "riveting" and "one-of-a-kind" documentary that is "complete with Lynchian echoes of Twin Peaks" (The Hollywood Reporter).

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Diego Semerene

Slant Magazine

Apr 27

3.5/4

The film is a philosophical account of the shaky ground that human existence stands on.

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Fionnuala Halligan

Screen International

06/15/2023

One of the twistiest documentaries this side of Three Identical Strangers, although that’s where the comparison ends.

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Matt Zoller Seitz

RogerEbert.com

06/15/2023

A charming, moving, and thought-provoking film.

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Stephen Silver

The SS Ben Hecht

May 11

it’s a fascinating premise, but unfortunately it’s told in the most convoluted, confusing, and hard-to-follow fashion imaginable.

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

May 8

While its serpentine narrative leaves many questions still dangling, this "Miracle" still rewards the curiosity it stirs in bulk.

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Tina Kakadelis

Beyond the Cinerama Dome

May 5

The Gullspång Miracle begins as quirky Scandinavian absurdism, then morphs into something much deeper. Truth doesn’t matter. What shapes us is what we want to believe.

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Sir Martimus U

@RT45602972 03/02/2025

The movie is an hour and 50 mins long. About an hour and a half in, they invalidate the entire premise of the movie. What a waste of time. Like the director says in the film, "I'm a little upset."

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ALF T

@RT37217344 11/02/2024

Enjoyed it but it was a great lead up to a frustrating unanswered finish. Maybe there’ll be a second part-if so I’ll look forward it.

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Leaburn O

@RT35452347 06/03/2024

Entertaining and frustrating in equal measures. The zodiac of documentaries.

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Maria Fredriksson

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Olaug Bakkevoll

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Pauline Dahl

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Jan Fjelltun

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Maria Fredriksson

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Ina Holmqvist

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A seemingly divine premonition leads Norwegian sisters Kari and May to buy an apartment in the small Swedish town of Gullspång. To their surprise, the seller looks remarkably similar to their older sister Astrid, who committed suicide thirty years earlier. What's even more odd is that this doppelgänger used to go by "Lita," the same nickname as their deceased sister. What begins as an eerie story of destiny, faith and improbable coincidence soon becomes a Pandora's Box of stranger-than-fiction revelations and awkwardly comical mishaps in this "riveting" and "one-of-a-kind" documentary that is "complete with Lynchian echoes of Twin Peaks" (The Hollywood Reporter).

Director: Maria Fredriksson
Producer: Ina Holmqvist
Screenwriter: Maria Fredriksson
Distributor: Film Movement
Production Co: Mer Film, Good Company Pictures, Ballad Films
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: Swedish
Release Date (Streaming): May 2, 2025
Runtime: 1h 48m

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