![]() I am nothing,” he says, suggesting clandestine trysts, which she refuses. But Arvid, now promoted to theater and opera critic, hesitates when he has the opportunity to marry her, because of ambition or or poverty or pride or other factors not really explained by the movie. She gets away when her father dies, just not far, since he left her penniless. (That tinkling piano motif is heard to death throughout the movie.) Lydia gives him one of her watercolors on the back are written the words: “Away. A few meaningful glances, some soft-spoken words and a brush of fingers at the piano are all it takes to seal their love. He meets Lydia Stille (Karin Franz Korlof) and her severe eyebrows for the first time when his editor-in-chief, Markel (Michael Nyqvist), takes him along to interview her father Anders (Goran Ragnerstam), a boozing painter, at their ramshackle cabin on an island in the Stockholm archipelago. But neither of them has quite the charisma needed to command the screen and hold us captive in their world.Īrvid Stjarnblom ( Sverrir Gudnason) is a new proofreader at a Stockholm newspaper as the story begins. The leads are perfectly capable, and they don’t hold back in conveying the raw feeling of two people eternally conflicted over their choices. Part of the issue is casting, particularly in a movie in which the somewhat artless visual style suggests that emotive performance is the director’s main concern. ![]()
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