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...them, interviews with Dorothy after she became famous, and blood-drenched flashbacks to the afternoon of the murder, is that you know the ending, and must wait uncomfortably for the violent climax. The acting is uniformly excellent, the camera work unobtrusively effective, and the cinematography by frequent Bergman collaborator Sven Nykvist superb. Sleazy glitter is shown in a drab light that seems to have been filtered through all of the cocktail lounges in Los Angeles. But it is difficult to appreciate technical virtuousity while trying to distance yourself from the film and its imminent ending. Though Fosse wants...
...actors who give the production any shape, in fact, are the ones who move beyond their lines to create characters in 3-D. Sven Krogius brings a bizarre array of mannerisms to the pivotal Judge Brack, the only personality stronger than Hedda's, and the only one who can wrest the plot out of her control. Tall and gaunt, Krogius speaks in a sneering whine and lopes through the generally imaginative blocking with enthusiasm. His malevolence becomes the production's dominant force, which unbalances things but at least raises the excitement level...
...gloomy last week as characters in a bleak Ingmar Bergman movie. The Stockholm stock exchange was still and silent, idled temporarily by a total breakdown in an electronic system for registering trades. Millions of transactions being processed at the time of the crash were suddenly in limbo. Said Broker Sven Hagströmer: "It's a scandal. You can't get your money, and you can't get your stocks." Nothing so disastrous had happened to the exchange since it shut down during a financial panic in 1932 after Match King Ivar Kreuger went bankrupt...
Naval officials here expressed skepticism over Flintstong's story, but refused to confirm or deny the possibility that the alien submarine might have been manned by French Canadian rather than Soviets, as had previously been assumed. "Everyone's under suspicious," commented Capt. Sven Jorgansfut...
...unconfirmed reports that a Soviet spy plane was crisscrossing the Baltic, presumably to attempt to make radio contact with the mystery vessel. Whatever it was, wherever it was, Stockholm remained determined to find out, no matter how long it took. "It's a. war of nerves," said Captain Sven Carlsson, the Swedish navy spokesman. "Time is on our side.'' -By James Kelly. Reported by Mary Johnson/Stockholm