Director: Bo Widerberg
Cast: Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren, Lennart Malmer, Cleo Jensen, Nina Widerberg,
Plot: Bound by their all-consuming desire, a young circus tightrope walker and a lieutenant forsake everything to be together and escape to the countryside—only to see their lovers’ idyll gradually give way to poverty and desperation.
Bo Widerberg’s New Swedish Cinema from Criterion
Criterion’s new four-disk Blu-ray set Bo Widerberg’s New Swedish Cinema introduces the work of a filmmaker who deserves to be better-known; a critic who rebelled against the dominant work of filmmakers like Ingmar Bergman which […]