The Gullspång Miracle

8/4/2023

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 (supposed) divine premonition that led two sisters to buy an apartment in the tiny Swedish town of Gullspång. When the go to sign the papers, the seller looks absolutely identical to their older sister who died by suicide (supposedly) nearly three decades earlier. As the sisters try to reunite their family and seek answers to how any of this is possible, huge cracks form in each person’s story, a

3/13/2026

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 town of Gullspång for some inexplicable, possibly divine, reason. After a slight accident caused her to have to remain in the place, she started to look for a house. No houses but inspecting an apartment, guess what was on the wall? Yep! Kismet! What's more the seller was the spitting image of their late sister. Anyway, she buys the apartment and that is the start of a series of revelations that t