"Trollstenen (Trolls' Rock) is (Gunvor Nelson's) Roots. In it she (returns) to her Swedish origins with new eyes. Strengthened in her personal vision, she can now confront her family's myths, rituals and traditions, in short, the whole complex of communal values, and reckon their importance... The central focus of the film is a living portrait of her Swedish family, from great-great-grandparents to the present: her parents, her brothers and sisters and herself. Simultaneously, she has shifted from an emphasis on herself as an individual to her kinship with the family group... On the level of myth, too, Nelson seeks a new fusion of the personal and the communal: this is reflected in the film's rediscovery of traditional Scandinavian mythology... The trolls of Swedish legend are present...in Gunvor's childhood memories of dark forests. They are the link between the human family and the natural world which is so central to all of Nelson's films. Nature here, as elsewhere in her work, provides a counterpoint to society, an uncontaminated sphere in which the individual can develop freely...when family life becomes too rigid, when traditions become oppressive..." June M. Gill, "The Films of Gunvor Nelson," Film Quarterly, Spring '77