The Gullspång Miracle

I’ve seen quite a few Scandinavian documentaries where I do end up at the end wondering if any of it was actually true? This tells of a mystery that started with the birth of twins in 1941. Not that either twin born at the time knew of the other, indeed that only happened after two sisters - Kari and May - realised that they had the same still life on their wall and that one of them felt drawn to ...

I liked but didn’t love writer / director Maria Fredriksson’s “The Gullspång Miracle,” an interesting, if eerily familiar, documentary that has shades of both “Catfish” and “Three Identical Strangers.” It’s a fascinating story, but Fredriksson doesn’t do a good job telling it. The end result is a twisty, turny, frustrating film that leaves the viewer with very few answers. It all started with a...