Trivia

Banned in Australia since 2014.

Renées home is filmed in Stockholm suburb Tensta. The metroline from Tensta to Central Stockholm is entirely underground, so shots of the metrotrain on a bridge is from an other metroline in Stockholm.

When Reine is encouraged and then accepted to join the street performers (named the Busker Theater Company in the novel "Children's Island", by P.C. Jersild upon which the film is based), Reine is told that in order to more closely resemble the tennis star Bjorn Borg for an upcoming play, he must have his hair cut shorter.

However, the videos of Borg included in the film for Reine to emulate as closely as possible clearly show Borg with even longer hair than Reine's; Borg's hair even held back by a headband to hold it in place, thereby making Reine's haircut unnecessary.

In the novel, Reine reluctantly allows his hair to be cut but is clearly upset when the performers subsequently tease him about his now short, indeed unflattering, hairstyle, later even arbitrarily deciding that he won't be accepted to play the part of Bjorn Borg after all, to which Reine angrily responds by quitting and riding away on his bicycle.

As is usually the case, the novel is more explanatory concerning this and other scenes in this oddity of a film.