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Ung flukt, 1959
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Ung flukt (1959, dir. Edith Carlmar)
#ung flukt#classicfilmsource#dailyworldcinema#fyeahmovies#directed by women#the wayward girl#edith carlmar#1950s
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Celebrating Edith Carlmar! "Edith Carlmar was not only Norway’s first female director, but she made what is considered to be country’s first film noir (Death Is a Caress) and introduced the great actress Liv Ullman to audiences around the world with The Wayward Girl (1960). All of her films were box-office hits, which means she is one of the most successful directors in Norwegian history." Read more in Film at Lincoln Center's Who Is Edith Carlmar?
The Wayward Girl | Ung flukt (1959) "...a surprisingly vital film, with a vibrant Liv Ullmann in her screen debut.” Read more on The Association of European Cinematheques' A SEASON OF CLASSIC FILMS: ‘THE WAYWARD GIRL’ BY EDITH CARLMAR.
Fools in the Mountains | Fjols til fjells (1957)
"One of the most popular Norwegian films of all time, actress and director Edith Carlmar’s Fools in the Mountains (1957) is exactly what one might expect from a situational comedy. Characters mistake characters for other characters, making for confusion and frustration among the cast but great fun for the audience." Read more in The Hot Pink Pen's Norwegian Favorite ‘Fools in the Mountains’ is a Situational Comedic Treat.
Death Is a Caress | Døden er et kjærtegn (1949)
"The movie’s looming menace offers a glimpse at the essential tragic conflict between sex and society, between a woman’s public life and her intimate yearnings." Read more in Richard Brody's Rare Classic Films by Female Directors in The New Yorker.
Explore Carlmar's filmography on MUBI:
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"Lån meg din kone" (1958) - Edith Carlmar
(Transl.: "Lend me your wife")
Films I've watched in 2024 (22/?)
#films watched in 2024#Lån meg din kone#Tore Foss#Sonja Wigert#Atle Merton#Randi Kolstad#Egil Hjorth-Jensen#Rolf Just-Nilsen#Turid Balke#Vigdis Røising#Elsa Lystad#Erik Lassen#Edith Carlmar#comedy#Norwegian film#Norwegian cinema#1950s film#1950s cinema#motionpicturelover's gifs
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Ung flukt (AKA The Wayward Girl) Edith Carlmar 1959
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Movies I watched this week (#186):
“How can Zuckemborg let this happen?…”
Thelma (2024) is a lightly-paced, adorable comedy about a strong-willed 93-year-old June Squibb, who's scammed of some money, and is determined to get it back. I loved it because she reminds me of my own independent mother (94), and because we need more non-condensending movies about really old people. Also starring very old Shaft (Richard Roundtree) in his final role, very old Alex deLarge with an oxygen tank, and as 'Winston', the very same guy from 'Focus Group'. 9/10.
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Last week I discovered British auteur Terence Davies, and saw 5 of his movies. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) is the first feature he directed, another period piece based on his own tortured youth in poor working class Liverpool of the 1950's. With abusive father Peter Postlethwaite, his traumatic memories remain bearable only when he reflects on the other members of his family. They only survive because they can sing. Unvarnished pub-life, where the rituals of drinking, and carrying on together transcend. No wonder the British film critics hold this film is such high esteem.
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2 by Yugoslav Zvonimir Berković:
🍿 My apartment (1963), a young girl narrates her impressions of moving into a new apartment. A lovely snapshot of post-war realism.
🍿 Rondo was decidedly not what you would expect from socialist entertainment of that time. A psychological play of ménage à trois between a sculpturer, his wife, and a judge who starts as a chess partner to the man, becomes a friend of the two, and then seduces the woman. It was interesting, but eventually became unfocused. The actress, Milena Dravić, was one of these pretty European divas from the 1960's. 5/10.
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My 17th & 18th by Agnès Varda, both about Parisian streets:
🍿 Varda made Daguerréotypes in 1976, when she had to stay at home with her baby. So she shot around the street where she lived, 90 meters on each side. It's basically the life of the little stores, and the customers who visit them. The local boulangerie, plumber, hardware store, butcher, accordion repairman, the small grocery, perfume maker and barber. Also, a driving instructor and a magician who dropped by for a show. Absolutely beautiful.
🍿 L'opéra-mouffe (Or as it was called in English Diary of a pregnant woman), one of her own favourite films, is a wordless, impressionistic poem about the Rue Mouffetard street market. What a great photographer eye she had! Lovely visuals with lovely-as-always score by Georges Delerue. Perfect! 9/10. [*Female Director*]
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Three ages (1923), the first feature Buster Keaton wrote, directed, produced, and starred in. A 3 part anthology about love, repeating the same story during the "stone age", Roman times, and at present. The Stone age predate The Flintstones aesthetics. Includes some great, classic gags.
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2 Nordic Noir (both from 1949):
🍿 Another classic Danish Noir from their most prolific period of the 40's and 50's, John and Irene is about a pair of small time ballroom dancers who travel all across Scandinavia, struggling to make a living. The woman, Bodil Kjer, is tired of their hardship, the man is naive and tries his best. Her unhappiness, and yes, nagging, driving over the edge. It's dark and tragic, dealing with powerlessness in a slightly different way.
🍿The debut film by Edith Carlmar, Death Is a Caress was the first Norwegian film directed by a woman. It used the same framing devise of flashback confession, and told again of an obsessive, ill-suited love affair. This time between a young auto mechanic and an older wealthy femme fatale. But it was weak and completely unconvincing. [*Female Director*]
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Watching John Wick (after reading this fluff piece on GQ about the saintly Keanu Reeves). They killed his dog, so he seeks revenge on the evil Russians, check. I am not the target audience for this type of action flicks. But it's filled with nothing but male cinematic cliches: The Mustangs always revs, Whiskey for breakfast, it always rain during funerals, and the video game-action, wow, the action... 2/10.
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2 shorts about pussies:
🍿 Pussy (2016) is a line-drawn animated short about a woman who relaxes alone at home, decides to smoke some pot and play with herself in the bath. Delightfully funny first film for a young Polish maker. Sweetest NSFW film of the week! [*Female Director*].
🍿 Pussy's Breakfast, a fantastic 1905 film about a girl and her cat eating breakfast, enhanced and colorized version. 9/10.
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3 horrifying documentaries:
🍿 "Why have you avoided confronting your family past?"
I've been obsessively thinking about the Nazi "Final Solution" for 50+ years, so I've come to despised most movies about the holocaust. 'The Zone of interest' was different, because it tackled the subject soberly, with unsentimental brutally. Now comes the new documentary The Commandant's Shadow, which is like a companion piece to 'Zone', tackling the same topic, Rudolf Höss’ family life. But it approaches it from a different angle: The generational trauma suffered (only partially by his son who's 87 now) but mostly by his grandson. And it contrasts that with a parallel story about a Jewish survivor, now 98, and her adult daughter. Together, these four deal with the burden of knowledge, shared guilt over unspeakable horror that was not of their doing, but which cannot be diluted even after 80 years. It features (new-to-me) footage from inside the camp, including many of the selection. Harrowing and hard. 9/10. [*Female Director*]. [Screenshot Above].
🍿 Retribution, "Investigating Trump, Project 2025 and the future of the United States". A scary Australian doc. which was released just after the assassination attack on Trump, so it's very current. They interview both critics as well as some of the proud architects of Project 2025. Absorbing, alarming and well-done. 8/10.
🍿 People You May Know (2020) is about Cambridge Analytical, and the misinformation warfare conducted by the ultra-right with the help of Big Data. How the The Council for National Policy and others brainwash and radicalize evangelical Christians, in order to merge State and Church. It's highly disturbing and mostly-known information, but it was done in a sloppy, amateurish way.
I must stop watching documentaries about religion - It does nothing but aggravate me!
(These last two were found on a list by Mara Einstein, a professor of media studies with a specialty in religion and cults. She recommends the documentary 'Bad Faith' as the best documentary on the subject. Having seen it recently, I agree.)
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3 more by Russian Aleksandr Petrov:
🍿 Petrov is a Russian animator who employs pastel oil paints on individual glass plates, a tedious process which causes his films to look dreamlike and surrealistic. He usually tells stories with old-fashioned agrarian themes, like classic Russian literature. I previously saw his Oscar winner 'The old man and the sea'.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is based on a Dostoevsky story, and is narrated by Alexander Kaidanovsky ("Stalker"). A suicidal man finds a reason to carry on after meeting a little girl. Fantastic hallucinations. 8/10.
🍿 My love, a romantic story about a boy and two young girls, done in the same dreamy style. It was released by Ghibli Studio, as they expanded their world-cinema offerings.
🍿 The cow (1989) is a symbolic little story about a village boy and his cow. Nominated for an Oscar.
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A bunch more short films:
🍿 Larisa is a tribute to filmmaker Larisa Shepitko, made in 1980, a year after she died in a car accident at the age of 40. It's my first film by her husband, Elem Klimov. (I know! I couldn't make myself watch his 'Come and see', but now I'll see that, as well as her 'The Ascent')
🍿 Students at an Hungarian film school were shown a black & white photo of three peasant women standing all looking outside the frame, and were told to write a short story about it. Wind ("Szél", 1996) is the award-winning, stunning result.
🍿 In All the World's Memory (1956) Alain Resnais explored the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the enormous depository of everything that was ever published in France, as well as extensive collections of manuscripts, artworks, and priceless historical artifacts. As a record, it's rudimentary, and at 21 min. too short. But now I want to see a newer, better film about the topic. This National Library must be one of the greatest institutions in the world.
🍿 The French An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge won the 1963 Oscars. It is based on the Civil War writer Ambrose Bierce's story. A man is about to be hanged from a bridge, and his life flashes in front of his eyes before his neck breaks.
🍿 The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra was a renowned avant-garde short from 1928, one of the few experimental silent film to receive general distribution. It was famously made for a total of $97 in German Expressionistic style, and was the first film shot by Gregg Toland.
🍿 "...It was time for secret games and conspiracies. The workers were ready to rebel. They had learnt a new word... Exploitation. Strangely enough, the three leaders of this underground movement went missing over a year. Rajan Shreshta, Narbu Lama, Charmie Gurung..."
Six Strands is a poetic Bengali story about mysterious, lonely lady who produces the most expensive Darjeeling tea in the world. It opens like a loving, magical nature documentary, but turns into a subtle, symbolic political manifesto. 8/10. Now I must see his award-winning feature 'Court'!
🍿 Outside in, a personal diary by an Irish filmmaker about the surreal experience of living in New York during Covid, when the the city was shut down and the streets were empty. Well done. 7/10.
🍿 A supercut of movie scenes that feature eggs, from a YouTuber named Patrick Tommaso. The list is here. Now I want eggs.
🍿 Stanley Pickle, a strange British short, with even stranger pixilation-type animation, about an automated boy who lives in the middle of nowhere. [*Female Director*]
(I also dreamt that I was running a marathon carrying two heavy backpacks, and that it was like watching myself actually doing it in a movie, but it was very difficult, and fortunately after a long while, I woke up…)
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"Haben sie Homer und Peter mit Chevron pump?"
Because of this clip, I watched my first few episodes of Family guy, pulled randomly out of a list. S2E3, S4E1, S9E7, S11E4, S13E1, S17E11 .. I could easily add some more. Seth MacFarlane must be a fun guy to hang around and crack jokes with. Lots of gross-inappropriate sex and drugs jokes. I'm not too familiar with much Adult Animation otherwise.
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(My complete movie list is here).
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DODEN ER ET KJARTEGN” - (in English: "Death Is a Caress", Edith Carlmar, 1949)
Love that kills.
Just watched yesterday a beautiful Norwegian love drama (be careful: not a melodrama): "Doden er et kjartegn" that tells the story of an "amour fou" between a married wealthy uninhibited woman and a car mechanic; between the two lovers a strange and dangerous story begins in which both are increasingly both sexually attracted and in competition one another. As each of them wants the other's love if maintaining the place acquired in their respective social class, a particular affective behavior based on a dangerous relation in which love and hate can't stand together slowly increases till the unavoidable fate.... (I stop here).The movie was the directorial debut of female director Edith Carlmar and I found quite surprising how a "newcomer" filmmaker is able here to treat, adjoining her feminine sensibility, the not simple literary material by which the film is adapted (a novel by Arve Moen) so creating a personal well visible style, one that recalls, according the great nordic tradition, the motives of both Dreyer and Sjöberg if remaining, undoubtely, hers. The film can be read as a psychologic essay about the life of a couple, the sacrifices it demands, the excesses of jealousy (the woman decides to have an abortion in order to punish her husband she presumed, wrongly, a traitor), the inescapability of a murder that the victim, more than the killer, seems to look for.
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Ung Flukt / The Wayward Girl (1959) | Dir. Edith Carlmar
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The Wayward Girl (Ung Flukt, Edith Carlmar, 1959)
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Døden er et kjærtegn (Death Is a Caress) | Edith Carlmar | 1949
#Edith Carlmar#Døden er et kjærtegn#Death Is a Caress#1949#Noirvember#Einar Vaage#Claus Wiese#Bjørg Riiser-Larsen#Bjørg Riiser Larsen#Eva Bergh#Ingolf Rogde
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new-to-me #303 - Døden er et kjærtegn (Death is a Caress)
#2020 in Films#Noirvember#Edith Carlmar#Death is a Caress#Døden er et kjærtegn#52 Films By Women#Directed By Women
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Ung flukt, 1959
#Ung flukt#1959#Edith Carlmar#Liv Ullmann#The Wayward Girl#50s#1950s#1950s movie#50s movie#fifties#fifties movie#classic movie#1950s film#1950s films#1950s movies#50s movies#gif#50s gif#1950s gif#movie gif#movie gifs#filmgifs#moviegif#moviegifs#movie#movies#black and white movie#black and white movies#b&w#norwegian movie
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The Wayward Girl (Edith Carlmar), 1959
Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman), 1953
#films#movies#stills#The Wayward Girl#Summer with Monika#Edith Carlmar#women directors#Ingmar Bergman#Liv Ullmann#Harriet Andersson#1950s#Norwegian#Swedish
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Ung flukt (1959, Edith Carlmar)
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"Ung flukt" (1960) - Edith Carlmar
Films I've watched in 2023 (28/119)
Feature film debut of Liv Ullmann.
Why is it that so often in these "bad girl leads boy from good family astray" films the boy in question is such an annoying, jealous little bitch?
That's not to say I didn't like it, it was good. Liv Ullman is very good, and Rolf Søder is excellent as a man that comes into the life of the young lovers and stirs things up.
Full film on Archive.org (with an English subtitle file).
#films watched in 2023#Ung flukt#Liv Ullmann#Atle Merton#Ola B. Johannesen#Tore Foss#Randi Brænne#Rolf Søder#Edith Carlmar#1960s cinema#1960s film#Norwegian film#Norwegian cinema#coming of age drama#film GIFs#motionpicturelover's gifs
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Lend Me Your Wife dir. Edith Carlmar (1958)
After a man working for a toy company discovers that the company only promotes married men he asks his friend’s wife to pretend to be married to him.
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