Word: gunnel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Summer Paradise. As four generations of a Swedish family gather for a holiday, Director Gunnel Lindblom probes the forces that threaten the family as an institution...
...Directed by Gunnel Lindblom Written by Ulla Isaksson and Gunnel Lindblom...
This description of the film's story plays it false, makes it seem somehow a schematic representation of a textbook family, when in fact the people of Paradise are carefully particularized. The film is the first time that Gunnel Lindblom, an actress in several Ingmar Bergman movies, has directed (Bergman has the producer's credit). Her touch is usually delicate. Even the unhappy ending is understated, though there is a hint of further tragedy to come. There will be more to this family's life, and not all, of it a misery, before we write finis either...
...infant son Colm by selling football pins and pennants is thwarted by a mob of fans who pick clean his display board. Seeing his existence threatened by "little things-errors of judgment, but never crimes" -Bogus begins identifying with Akthelt, the heroic warrior and lover in Akthelt and Gunnel-an absurd Old Low Norse epic he is translating for his doctoral thesis. And when Akthelt is told "Det henskit of krig er tu overleve" ('The object of war is to survive it"), Trumper thinks: "Which struck me as the object of graduate school-and possibly my marriage...