Product: Elvira Madigan [VHS]
Rating: 5.0
Why Has'nt this been Reviewed ?!
Maybe audiences are'nt attracted to good classic foreign films. Which is odd. "Life is Beautiful " and other independent films certainly have had recognition. "Elvira Madigan" won the Cannes Film Festival Award for best foreign film when it was released in the 60's. It is the allegedly true story of Sisten Sparre and Elvira Madigan, their romantic summer escape and consequent suicide. Sparre is a lieutenant and Madigan is a runaway circus tightrope walker. They give away everything they had for one summer of love. The cinematography is very beautiful, focusing on the lush countryside of either Sweden or Denmark (I forget) with beautiful fields, lakes and forests. The music is perfectly set to this tragic story of love- the director had it set to the second movement of an enchanting Mozart piano concerto, his 21st, with its mellow and romantic sound and to Vivaldi's 3rd movement of "Summer " from the "4 Seasons " appropriate as the lovers run away into the forest escape. This truly is a beautiful film, it is great to look at and I highly esteem it as the best foreign film ever to be made.