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Les créatures [The Creatures] (Agnès Varda, 1966)
Aug
29
Mylène (Catherine Deneuve) and Edgar (Michel Piccoli) Piccoli playing checkers at a small table. DPs: Willy Kurant, William Lubtchansky & Jean Orjollet.
“Everything is rotten. Decadence is everywhere. Why fight it?”
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Äppelkriget [The Apple War] (Tage Danielsson, 1971)
Aug
27
1971
Blond people read two bright-yellow posters from two well-known, real-world Swedish newspapers. There's news about Deutschneyland. DP: Lars Swanberg.
“Look! Those tourists have already arrived. And they pitch their tents IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET! It's bloody awful.”
– bicycle repairman
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Cagliostro – Liebe und Leben eines großen Abenteurers [Cagliostro] (Richard Oswald, 1929)
Aug
15
1785
A title card: LE 15 AOÛT 1785. DPs: Maurice Desfassiaux & Jules Kruger.
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Ansiktet [The Face / The Magician] (Ingmar Bergman, 1958)
Jul
14
Granny Vogler (Naima Wifstrand) telling a sobbing Sara (Bibi Andersson) that yes, she may indeed be a witch. DP: Gunnar Fischer.
“I see what I see, and I know what I know. But nobody believes me.”
– Granny Vogler
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L'uomo più velenoso del cobra [The Man More Venomous Than the Cobra / Human Cobras] (Bitto Albertini, 1971)
May
19
Leslie (Erika Blanc) and Tony Garden (George Ardisson). DP: Emilio Foriscot.
“For a handful of coins!”
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Bröllopsbesvär [Wedding: Swedish Style] (Åke Falck, 1964)
Nov
11
Bride and groom, and resentfulness at front. DP: Rune Ericson.
A dysfunctional family*
On a wedding day, and night, a family's dirty secrets are laid bare.
* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for November is, again, not date-based, but follows a sloppy schmaltzy all-American Thanksgiving-y narrative. Trying to make it work my way.
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Nattmara [Nightmare] (Arne Mattsson, 1965)
Oct
19
Tue
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Hands hold up a small diary. The camera is focussed on Tuesday the 19th of October, 1965. Handwriting, a chicken scrawl, reads CITROEN A66692 MAJ BERG ✝. Besides that the week is uneventful. DP: Max Wilén.
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Vargtimmen [Hour of the Wolf] (Ingmar Bergman, 1968)
Oct
4
aquavit
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Digestifs served with glass peepers Skål! DP: Sven Nykvist.
“This is my supper, you see. Lindhorst, who knows the world, says that old harlots have a morbid desire to satisfy their mouths and stomachs.”
– Gamla Fru von Merkens
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Äppelkriget [The Apple War] (Tage Danielsson, 1971)
Sep
17
National Apple Dumpling Day
Locals and a centaur – half man, half papier-mâché – enjoy a drink. DP: Lars Swanberg.
– What are you gonna do with tons of apples? They can't be sold! Ask any apple farmer! They just pile up and rot!
– The apple farmers?
– No. The apples!
A beautiful, picturesque part of Sweden will become… Deutschneyland! At least, that's the brilliant business plan Herr Volkswagner has. But the local apple farmers – a large family that's half human, half mythological creatures – have no need for an amusement park on their grounds.
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Månen är en grön ost [The Moon Is a Green Cheese] (Mai Zetterling, 1977)
Aug
21
violet
A woman in a violet dress and sunhat, plays a harp in the middle of a lake (via). DP: John Bulmer.
Violet in food or fashion. If in doubt, pick a title with ALL the colours of the rainbow!*
During their stay in the family summer house, two sisters imagine themselves as adults, once for every colour of the rainbow.
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