Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Herbert Rawlins, Jr. '27 was a stylist, a player whose grace made him a pleasure to watch. Jack Barnaby '32, Harvard's present squash coach, wrote of him: "It was his pleasure to thwart the crude bludgeonings of sluggers with the rapier thrust of restrained but perfect accuracy." Rawlins took the National title...
ELVIRA MADIGAN is not the most beautiful film ever made. It is not "perfect," or "absolutely gorgeous," or "exquisite," or any of the other things Bosley Crowther and his friends said about it. Director Bo Widerberg presents us with an unconvincing, confusing story fraught with technical flaws. In spots, he is brilliant. Single frames seem like French Impressionist paintings...
...point of the fable. He touched on it once or twice, but, in the main, he missed it. Elvira Madigan is not a story about two lovers who reject society and then die for their own love. It is a story of two lovers, loving ideally in a perfect setting, who find that their kind of love--the butterflies and the daisies and the wine and cheese--is not enough...
Indoors, however, it is another matter. The yellow afternoon light filtering in through the windows creates a perfect effect. Widerberg seems more interested when he gets inside. The scene in the first hotel room is shot with a huge lens, making an unusual and effective flattening out--with Elvira, Sparre, the lamp, and the bed all in the same plane. The restaurant sequence, with Miss Degermark's face glowing gold from the slanting sunlight, is another fine piece of work...
Dean Watson said that he was "not disturbed" by the report since the room was not on University property and that he was "certain the situation has been handled with perfect propriety...