Word: sixten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MEADOW BROOK MUSIC FESTIVAL, Rochester, Mich., celebrates its fifth season with eight weeks of varied symphonic programs and name soloists, including two rare appearances by Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky (Aug. 17-18). Orchestra-in-residence is the Detroit Symphony under Sixten Ehrling. The American Ballet Theater dances for a week starting July...
...story is a Swedish folk tale set in the 1880's. Tight-rope dancer Elvira Madigan (16-year-old Pia Degermark) and army officer Sixten Sparre (Tommy Berggen) fall in love, desert their families to live together in the summer of a Scandinavian countryside. They catch butterflies, roll in the flowers, move along from resort hotel to resort hotel. But they run out of money. And, trying to keep their identities secret, they are unable to find work. On the edge of starvation, Sparre kills Elvira, then himself...
WIDERBERG is not sure where he is going. He introduces one conflict, then drops it. Sparre's soldier friend tries to shame Elvira into leaving Sparre by telling her that Sixten's deserted wife tried to commit suicide. Elvira runs away, but 30 seconds later Sparre catches her, tells her that his friend's story was a lie, and everything is fine again...
...blade of grass--Elvira's hair, and, in the end, the gray barrel of the pistol. The background--the rest of the world--is blurred: "When you look at the blade of grass, you can see it and nothing else. The rest of the world is blurred," says Sixten...
Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 is played throughout the film. Appropriate, yes. But after a while, it gets boring. The film's real music is in the language. Swedish sounds lyrical and Widerberg uses it well, especially in the exchange between Sparre and Elvira as Sixten holds the pistol to her head, ready to shoot...