Product: Elvira Madigan [VHS]
Rating: 5.0
A lush and luminous romantic tragedy
Not much of a story, but a terrific movie. I first saw this in the mid-sixties with my new husband - and he left the theater in tears. Yeah, he's still a softie, so it didn't surprise me that he cried again when we recently watched it again. Set in the mid-1800s, it's the story of a married (with children) Swedish army officer who falls madly in love with a beautiful Danish tightrope walker. In spite of pressures from all sides, they abandon life, responsibility, society, and conventions to be together.The music is rhapsodic, the photography is gorgeous, the setting n an idyllic forest is lush - and the tragic outcome is inevitable. And it's based on a true story. Who could ask for more?