Elvira madigan dvd review
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Elvira Madigan
Love is a killer.
Love is selfish, obsessive, cruel, single-minded and sentimental.
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The true story of Elvira Madigan personifies another symptom of the condition. Can you live on love alone, without finance or friends? Is it possible to escape the world and create another - just for two?
Bo Widerberg's film breaks every rule in the book.
There is no attempt at analysis, explanation or social understanding.
Elvira madigan dvd review
A Swedish army officer in the late 19th century runs away with a tightrope walker. After a brief period of happiness, during which the isolation and danger of their predicament becomes ever more pressing, they agree on a suicide pact.
It is the ultimate romantic tragedy, an admission of defeat and a gesture of defiance.
Characterisation is hinted at, rather than indulged. Like everything else about Widerberg's radical approach to storytelling, the audience must fill the spaces where biographical detail should be.
The film is almost an hour old before it is disco