Furniture stores are strange places.
The liminal feeling they give off is something like a life-size dollhouse or home you once lived in but can’t remember when.
If you’ve ever been into an Ikea, chances are you thought about what it’d be like to spend the night in one of the staged rooms that has a sink with no running water.A friend told me once that when she was younger, her parents would take her and her older sister to Bob’s Furniture for snacks and movies.
While her parents would pretend to shop around for a pressboard dresser, she and her sister would raid the store’s self-serve cafe for popcorn, ice cream, candy, cookies and then sit down in the store’s small theater while something like “Finding Nemo” or “Shrek” played.At its core, Swedish director Niclas Larsson’s debut feature “Mother, Couch,…
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