CC #9 Here Is Your Life - 1966 - Jan Troell
Tomorrow i have a little talk to decide whether to get back into booze again, and i admit freely here that i shouldn't get back to that, i should be rejoicing in a more real authentic way that i have such things as The Criterion Channel. Drinking again would be like saying, sure that's nice, but ya gotta be wasted because it isn't all that great in the end, and it is, and maybe by refusing this temptation to finish off my liver, i reaffirm to myself that Criterion is good enough.
This film is a long one, i had seen 2 Troells at the end and beginning of a year a whiles back, they were masterful, i don't want to see Sweden cinematically only through the eyes of Ingmar Bergman, so Troell is the first significant director to fill that need. There's a little more CC has from him, and ripe for discovery some other Swedes.
CC says
This film is a long one, i had seen 2 Troells at the end and beginning of a year a whiles back, they were masterful, i don't want to see Sweden cinematically only through the eyes of Ingmar Bergman, so Troell is the first significant director to fill that need. There's a little more CC has from him, and ripe for discovery some other Swedes.
CC says
This mesmerizing debut by the great Swedish director Jan Troell is an epic bildungsroman and a multilayered representation of early twentieth-century Sweden. Based on a series of autobiographical novels by Nobel Prize winner Eyvind Johnson, HERE IS YOUR LIFE follows a working-class boy’s development, from naive teenager to intellectually curious young adult, from logger to movie projectionist to politically engaged man of the people—all set against the backdrop of a slowly industrializing rural landscape. With its mix of modernist visual ingenuity and elegantly structured storytelling, this enchanting film—presented here in its original nearly three-hour cut—is a reminder that Troell is one of European cinema’s finest and most sensitive illuminators of the human condition.
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