“The Restaurant”–A Banquet of Plots
This Sundance Now series from Sweden begins in May 1945 in celebration of the end of World War II. Calle Svensson, a young working class aspiring chef, plants an impulsive kiss on a pretty young stranger, Nina Löwander. Her family owns a traditional, if old-fashioned, restaurant in Stockholm. Although officially neutral during the war, Sweden had both Nazi supporters and resisters. The first of three seasons in The Restaurant grapples with the war’s aftermath.
While peace is proclaimed all over Europe, a family battle begins to rage among Löwander...