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Director: Stig Björkman
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From Time Out Film Guide
Given that its central performance by Harriet Andersson is technically perfect, this study of female frustration displays hardly any other redeeming features. Settling for a one-track, frankly boring delineation of the tribulations of a newly-separated woman of 35, it progresses (infinitely slowly) by means of a line of clichéd encounters with representative boorish males and sympathetic girlfriend towards a cop-out fadeout that is the ultimate in arty pretentiousness. Throughout, the film treats Andersson's character as a 'specimen' under glass, even going so far as to parallel her situation with that of her son's goldfish. A sign of Björkman's inability to think his subject through is that he has to despatch the young son from the narrative halfway through; while his oblique references to Bergman merely highlight the emptiness of his own concept.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Stig Björkman
Producer: Bengt Forslund
Cast: Harriet Andersson, Lena Nyman, Sven Wollter, Tomas Pontén, Rolf Larsson full cast
Duration: 79 mins
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