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Noted Swedish actor, director and writer Erland Josephson will be in Cambridge today to discuss his experience working with famous film directors like Ingmar Bergman and Andrei Tarkovsky...
...reliable figures, the U.S. percentage is believed to be considerably lower.) Thus Swedes who do not share the same roof before tying the knot are more conservative than the rest of the society and may be more dedicated to preserving even a shaky marriage. Says Swedish % Demographer Erland Hofsten: "It would be dangerous to use a study like this in an ongoing debate in the U.S. about young American couples...
...DEATH. Technology. Nietzsche. These are the issues that plague Alexander (Erland Josephson), a former actor and disaffected professor. He has retired to his Swedish summer home to celebrate his birthday, and as the film opens we see him planting a tree on the beach with his son, Little Man (Tommy Kjellqvist), attended by the local postman, Otto (Allan Edwall). The opening shot is awesome--10 minutes long, sustained and uncut, the camera moving with snail-like fury closer and closer toward the central characters. By the time we see their faces, we're desperate to, hungry to; Tarkovsky knows...
...lusciously enigmatic Mirror (1978) and Stalker (1979) sealed Tarkovsky's fate as a picturemaker on the way out. Within a few years, he was. He went to Italy to make Nostalghia (1983), about a Russian estranged from his homeland, and to Sweden for The Sacrifice with Ingmar Bergman Stalwarts Erland Josephson and Cinematographer Sven Nykvist. Tarkovsky now lives in Paris, ailing from cancer...
Henrik Vogler (Erland Josephson) is a renowned stage director, now embarking on a new production of August Strindberg's 1902 fantasia, A Dream Play. In the pivotal role of Indra's Daughter he has cast young Anna Egerman (Lena Olin), who is the daughter of two of Henrik's old acting colleagues. One afternoon, following a rehearsal of the play, the dozing Henrik is awakened by Anna. They sit on an old sofa and chat about their crossed lives and their shared art. The talk drifts to Anna's dead mother Rakel, and in the wink...