Granny's Dancing on the Table

Sköld effectively creates an atmosphere of tension, isolation, and brutality in the present-day narrative, while the sequences of stop-motion animation capture Eini's sense of childlike imagination and subsequent escape from reality. While the film sets out to present familial abuse as a cyclical act--in a highly disquieting and blunt manner--Sköld never digs deep enough to make Granny's influence on Eini clearly known, and her treatise on abuse is somewhat half-baked and without commentary.