Word: ullmanns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here are two of the best film actors in the world, looking miserable and fighting hard as they try to scrounge a scrap of grace and dignity from the shambles of this shopgirl's religious romance. Liv Ullmann and Peter Finch first met on screen in Lost Horizon, an unnatural disaster of a movie which required them to bill and coo at each other while chorus boys in loincloths leapt all about them. In The Abdication, they bill and coo once again-this time with spiritual fervor...
...years in a Jesuit seminary ("It concentrates your thinking," he says with a half-smile) and cracks jokes in Latin for his press entourage. He has been a follower of Eugene McCarthy and Cesar Chavez, made money as a corporation lawyer, studied Gandhi and Thomas a Kempis, dated Liv Ullmann and Natalie Wood. He is a public man with private layers that are concealed from even his closest friends...
Marriage begins airily enough. Wedded for ten years, Johan (Erland Josephson) and Marianne (Liv Ullmann) have been selected by some national publication as a kind of "ideal couple" for a feature story on successful marriages. The superficially earnest lady interviewer asks the usual questions, some of them posed as answers. Johan is 42 and a behavioral scientist. Marianne is 32 and a divorce lawyer. They have a lovely home, two lovely daughters, lovely meshing temperaments. Fill in all the blanks with lovely...
...plumbing repairs and dinner every Sunday with the in-laws. Then one day Johan tells Marianne that he has fallen in love with a young student in his university seminar and is leaving to be with her. All the blood seems to drain out of Marianne's body. Ullmann even manages to make her lambent sapphire-blue eyes turn pale. In the Mediterranean she might have howled. In Scandinavia, even emotional desolation is sculpted...
...with the inequity of the cosmos. He seems to see the love of men and women as a metaphysical surrogate for the absence of God and God's love. It is clearly an incommensurable task. But who could better symbolize the desperate gallantry of the venture than Liv Ullmann, the orchid of the snows? >T.E. Kalem