Word: gisladottir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soon we're introduced to Alexander's household: his neurotic wife (Susan Fleetwood); their pristine daughter (Fillipa Franzen); the cold-blooded family doctor (Sven Wollter); and the servant girls, Julia (Valerie Mairesse) and Maria (Gudrun Gisladottir). They're like refugees from A Dream Play, and the house exudes the acoustic sterility of an undisturbed stageset in a bombed-out theatre; the hardwood floors click too loudly, the furniture looks placed, the china is more for display than use. It's the House of Usher waiting for a match...
Josephson is outstanding as Alexander, the Abraham, traipsing around in his Yin-Yang bathrobe, setting sacrificial pyres on the family frontporch. The supporting cast is also excellent, highlighted by Gisladottir as the surrogate Mother of God. But if the film belongs to anyone, it is Edwall...
...house. The upstairs quartet is Alexander (Josephson), a former actor who now teaches aesthetics; his English wife (Susan Fleetwood); a grown daughter (Filippa Franzen); and an adored son called Little Man (Tommy Kjellqvist). In various levels of the servant class are two maids, Julia (Valerie Mairesse) and Maria (Gudrun Gisladottir); Victor (Sven Wollter), a handsome doctor who attends the illnesses and neuroses of this frazzled family; and Otto (Allan Edwall), a postman who spouts Nietzsche, and will goad Alexander toward the starring role in a holocaustic farce-tragedy...
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