We categorize Something Must Break as "cinema", the question is whether this bold, but poignant Swedish film will ever be shown in the theatres. Fortunately, the picture was screened at various festivals, for example at the Pinx festival (the gay and lesbian film festival at the Sphinx-cinema in Ghent).
According to actor Iggy Malmborg, Something Must Break is a different gay film because he is not mild as many others. Director Ester Martin Bergmark is tryeing to widen the sexual boundaries, but he also shows how gray (or black) live in a big city like Stockholm can be.
Sebastian (Saga Becker) thinks that he has hidden his sexual orientation log enough. The young man not only dresses as a woman, as Ellie he becomes one too. Ellie is looking for sex at the men's toilets, even though he doesn't know what love for a man may mean. For a moment it seems as though Ellie has found the love of her life in Andreas ( Iggy Malmborg ), but he rejects the idea to share the bed with a man for the rest of his life.
This film is based on the book You Are the Roots That Sleep Beneath My Feet and Hold the Earth in Place by Eli Levén and shows a picture of Stockholm that we usually do not see. It is a gray town and we learn about a young man who is struggling with an identity problem, and who, by way of rebellion, starts stealing. No one understands him, and he already has accepted the fact that this will never happen. Sometimes the collision with reality is expressed with words, but sometimes with punches too.
Something Must Break can be situated between the reality of cinema by Lukas Moodysson and the mystical atmosphere of Derek Jarman. It is a strange combination, but it works. Let us hope that everyone gets the chance to see this film.