With the successful Swedish author Alex Schulman at “Chez Jolie” in Stockholm, where he spends the break between his theater rehearsals – and between his journeys into his family’s painful past.
We’ve only been talking for ten minutes when Alex Schulman opens the door to his childhood and the chaotic family kitchen: Mother’s Day. The father urges the three sons to bake a cake. The mother shouts from behind the closed bedroom door that she doesn’t want a present. The father who whispers, yes, yes, goes on. The mother screaming for them all to get away.