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Bookmark this pageOut of an Old Man's Head (1968)
Director: Tage Danielsson
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From Time Out Film Guide
Recuperating from an injury in an old folk's home, widower Johan Björk (the comedian Hasse Alfredson) runs through the incidents of his life: from childhood japes in the countryside, through his first visit to a whore house, to the running-away to sea of his son Erik - all expressed in a curious dreamlike mix of animation and live action. The tone and content of Per Åhlin's often inventive animation styles (two-dimensional cut-outs, crayon drawings, photographic collages, realist line-drawings, etc) veers between sophisticated erotic surrealism, notably in the whore house episode, and the standard sentiments of a children's cartoon. Over-extended and uneven, but a genuine oddity none the less.Author: JPy
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- Soprano said...
- Posted on Jan 05 2009 20:21 I saw this movie at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1968 and have never forgotten it. Yes, it is "uneven," but worth seeing nonetheless. The incident with a tin can, a hill, and an attempt to avoid embarrassment attendant upon a gaseous eruption still makes me laugh when I think of it.
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Cast & crew
Director: Tage Danielsson
Producer: Gunnar Karlsson
Cast: Hasse Alfredson, Fatima Ekman, Monica Nielsen, Ernst Günther, Gus Dahlström, Rolf Bengtsson full cast
Duration: 76 mins
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