Let the Right One In

“Eli is 12 years old. She's been 12 for over 200 years, and she just moved in next door.”

Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant), a bullied twelve-year-old in a frozen Stockholm suburb, meets Eli (Lina Leandersson), a pale child who appears only at night. As winter deepens and his classmates close in, Oskar finds in Eli a reason to stop running. Tomas Alfredson shoots the snow-covered streets in near-silence, until there is only the shape of a hand pressed against glass.