Word: widerberg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experience of film becomes process rather than product. The forms for accomplishing this alienation from the sacred reality of art cannot be prescribed: if sacred ones can be exploited, so much the better. . . I am simply leading up in all of this to the spectacle of Bo Widerberg, whose ultimately romantic style descends directly from the painting of Pierre Auguste Renoir, ruling-class lackey and who exists as a radical filmmaker, quite apart from Jean-Lue Godard...
...Adalen 31 combines dazzling Impressionist pastels with political analysis, setting up a disconcerting tension between superficial stylistic beauty and the undeniable gory reality of a massacre. Widerberg tells the story of a working class family engaged in the historic strike at Adalen, in the north of Sweden, where in 1931 troops fired on a peaceful demonstration and the deaths of five people precipitated a general strike that brought to power the Social Democrats, who have controlled the country ever since. The bloodshed dramatized conditions of inequality that already existed, but were obscured before and after by the sweet, hypnotic surfaces...