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193: 272:, Tobias and Elin go on a camping trip for vacation. They bicker constantly throughout the trip. As night falls, the couple is unable to find the campground they had intended to stay at and, despite Elin's protests, Tobias sets up camp in a wooded area off the side of the road. In the early morning, Elin leaves the tent to urinate and is accosted by three people and a dog who resemble the nursery rhyme characters from Maja's music box: the jovial and sharply dressed leader Mog, the hulking and animalistic Sampo - who carries a dead white dog at all times, and the stoic, witchlike Cherry - who owns a vicious brown 292:
As another loop starts, Tobias awakens in a panic and drags Elin to the car for another attempt at escape. They hit and kill a dog resembling the dead dog belonging to the trio and crash their car in a ditch. In their despair, Tobias and Elin comfort one another. Their fate is left ambiguous, but it
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and attempts various means of escape with each new cycle, only to be killed and awaken each time. Eventually, a loop starts in which Elin awakens with Tobias gone and encounters their wrecked car with Tobias nowhere to be found. Elin follows an enigmatic white cat and enters a building in which the
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Tobias and Elin inexplicably awaken again, with Elin having no memory of the previous events and Tobias chalking it up to being just a dream. When Elin leaves the tent, the two again encounter the strange trio and are again murdered. As the cycle repeats, Tobias begins to understand that they are
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of Maja in her sleep on her birthday (due to the mussels as she and Elin shared the pizza). Stricken with grief, Tobias and Elin's marriage begins to deteriorate as a result. It is unclear whether or not that they would intend to conceive another child.
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film directed, produced and written by Johannes Nyholm. The film tells the story of a struggling couple on a camping trip in the woods to save their marriage, after the tragic death of their daughter on her eighth birthday during a vacation in
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holds an approval rating of 80%, based on 61 reviews, and an average rating of 6.2/10. Its consensus reads, "Using an effectively creepy setting and a beguilingly evasive approach,
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for her; two parent rabbits have a child who dies, and the parent rabbits are subsequently driven apart by their grief.
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Swedish couple Tobias and Elin dote on their only daughter, Maja. For her eighth birthday, they purchase her a
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is implied that through their love and acceptance of their mutual grief, they have escaped the time loop.
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depicting three nursery rhyme characters from an antique store. However, during their vacation to
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was screened in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section at the
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Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
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Johannes Nyholm (right) presenting 'Koko-di Koko-da' at
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Peter Belli
Sundance

Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
surrealist
dark fantasy
psychological horror
Denmark
time loop
slapstick
music box
music box
Skagen
allergic reaction to shellfish
mussel
sudden death
Sweden
Staffordshire Bull Terrier
time loop
shadow play
Leif Edlund
Ylva Gallon
Katarina Jakobson
Peter Belli
Morad Baloo Khatchadorian
Brandy Litmanen
2019 Sundance Film Festival
Rotten Tomatoes
List of films featuring time loops

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