This is a movie about how not-great it is to have (and love) an alcoholic husband in grubby, cold, turn-of-the-century Sweden (that's 19th to 20th—rough times). It is also a movie about finding yourself and your place in the world by re-framing it through the lens of a camera (hence the almost unbearably earnest title). It is also approximately a million times less corny than it sounds—a dense, immersive, nearly epic chronicle of one mother's quiet triumphs, bleak Scandinavian hardships, and the never-ending scrubbing of floors. And love. (See Movie Times: thestranger.com/film.)