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...think it's a great idea to have a promiscuous proletarian publication," said Sven P. Birkerts, lecturer in Expository Writing. "It combines two of my favorite things--literature and cheapness...
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...
...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...
...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...
...exhaustive interviews with zoologists and anthropologists, I have learned that elves do not exist; never have, never will. If you are shocked by that, then hold on: reindeer cannot fly. This was proven in an experiment conducted in a Norwegian fjord in 1908 by the noted Swedish doctor Sven Svensen. The only results were 15 dead reindeer and a mob of angry Lapland herders...