YMMV / Att Angöra En Brygga

• Award Snub: Att Angöra En Brygga — a well-reviewed comedy classic which as of 2020 still boosts the second highest number of sold tickets for a domestic Swedish movie... was not even accepted into the 1966 Cannes Film Festival! Averted in Barcelona, where it took home the ”Best Colour Film” award of that year, and in its native Sweden, where director Tage Danielsson won a Chaplin prize for his work.
• Growing the Beard: This was the movie which firmly established Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson as talented filmmakers as opposed to ”just” a pair of funny writers branching out into screenplays.
• Harsher in Hindsight: This was Katie Rolfsen’s last film, and her character dies — along with the rest of the cast —after getting stranded in the archipelago. The following year, she would lose her life in a boating accident.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • A hammy Swedish man preparing regular meals in an over-the-top fashion? Viewers of Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time might get some Déjà vu...
  • ”Ensamholmen” translates out to... The Lonely Island.
• Love to Hate: Mr. Garbo. Hans Alfredson lends his Comical Overreaction chops to a barely comprehensible, Laughably Evil villain with a Hollywood obsession. The result is a hilarious character who’s still enough of a petty, trigger-happy Jerkass that Inez kicking his ass feels like well-earned karma.
• Misaimed Fandom: A meta example. With Monica Zetterlund’s Bragging Theme Tune becoming somewhat of a Breakaway Pop Hit, there are listeners who don’t realize that said praise is meant to be very sarcastic.
• Spoof Aesop: Not necessarily a bad aesop, but the sheer Refuge in Audacity of including it after such a Sudden Downer Ending pushes it into this.
  This would have never happened if they had a telephone - Support Televerket!
• Unintentional Period Piece:
  • Aside from the vintage fashion and cars, the film’s opening scene in Stockholm also shows what is now known as Evert Taube’s Terrace sans the statue erected In Memoriam of the musician, as he was still alive at the time. Incidentally, one of Taube’s songs — The Ballad of Gustaf Blom from Borås — is sung in the film (by Walter as he gets dragged behind the firework-boosted boat), and the man himself would later write the Title Theme Tune to (and cameo in) The Apple War, a movie which shares the screenwriters and much of their Production Posse with Att Angöra En Brygga.
  • Mr. Garbo references some then-recent Hollywood films, (his hat throw is a Shout-Out to Goldfinger, released the previous year), and as of the passing of Shirley Temple in 2014, none of his celebrity pen pals are any longer with us. Then there is the fact that he carries out his correspondance entirely through physical letters, especially since he has to travel back and forth to the mainland to post/retrieve them.
  • The plot of the film simply wouldn’t have happened after the advent of cell phones (which its closing text just about manages to predict!) For that matter, ”Televerket” was not only renamed ”Telia” in 1993, but simultaneously lost its monopoly on telecommunication. A later film promoting it so blatantly would be considered brand advertising.
• The Woobie: The entire main cast can be this (with Kalle and especially Mr. Garbo falling into Jerkass Woobie territory) considering how they all end up...