Tigers

About Tigers

Tigers is a 2020 international co-produced sports drama film written and directed by Ronnie Sandahl and based on the autobiography I skuggan av San Siro by Martin Bengtsson. It was selected as the Swedish entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

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Plot

The movie surrounds the true story of teenage football talent Martin Bengtsson's (Erik Enge) time as a 16-year-old professional footballer at the Italian club Inter Milan.

Cast

Erik Enge

Alfred Enoch

Johannes Bah Kuhnke

Liv Mjönes

Frida Gustavsson

Martina Oberti

Reception

Critical response

Tigers has an approval rating of 67% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 9 reviews, and an average rating of 6.3/10. Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 59 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Awards and nominations

Busan International Film Festival: Flash Forward: Best Film

2020 Rome Film Fest: Best Director (Ronnie Sandahl)

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Notable quotes

“All you gotta do is to use your instincts. How do you think a tiger knows how to tackle a gazelle? It's written, it's code written in their DNA, says "Tackle the gazelle." Believe it or not, in every man there's a code written that says "Tackle drunk bitches."”
— Judd Apatow and Steve Carell, The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005).
“If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself … that a tiger is an optical illusion — well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.”
— G. K. Chesterton, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 898.
“Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.”
— Kalki Krishnamurthy, in "The TIger King" as translated in Kalki : Selected Stories (1999).
“Animals do not think like we do. People who forget that get themselves killed. That tiger … is not your friend. When you look into his eyes you are seeing your own emotions reflected back at you.”
— David Magee, in Life of Pi (2012), based on Yann Martel's 2001 novel of the same name.
“Perched atop a coastal cliff, a tigress named Lidiya reclined, illuminated by the sun rising from the sea. She lay as a house cat might in a , content and at ease. The colors of her —cuts of black and washes of orange against a background of white—allowed this to all but disappear amid the complexity of the forest floor, hidden by the uneven terrain and obscured by shadows in the spindly .”
— Jonathan C. Slaght, (512 pages)
“Qi hu nan xia — When you’re riding a tiger, the hard part is getting off.”
— Chinese saying

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