Hugo and Josephine (1967) review

It's Summer in grand ol' Sweden and first grader Josephine (Marie Öhman) doesn't have any friends and her parents are too busy to spend time with her, so when she sees a bizarre little boy named Hugo (Fredrik Becklén), she thinks she's found her new best pal.  It begins all idyllic and serene, but it quickly - and I mean very quickly - runs out of places to go: Hugo is briefly upset when his (unseen) father goes to jail, but that's about all there is in the Drama Department, and the kids spend a part of the time in act three walking around a factory.  I think the attempt was to combine the sensibilities of Bergman and Truffaut and see if you can get this magical depiction of youthful whimsy, but it's a failure - I'd say this should be shown exclusively to the little ones, but twenty minutes in and I can imagine them becoming quickly disinterested and reaching for their iPads.