Seeing a 50's Viewing Challenge coming up on ICM at the same time as a Nordic one was taking place, I decided that I'd try to cross both over as much as possible. The first Nordic title to pop up on my downloads for 1950,I got set to find out how sisterly things could be.
View on the film:
Playing not one, but two members of the family, Sickan Carlsson gives hilarious sparkling turns as "sisters" Katarina and Birgitta Hassel,as she fools everyone thanks to Carlsson giving Birgitta a feisty, sarcastic streak, which runs in the other direction of the refine, regal manner Carlsson has Hassel hold Katarina up in,in order to present the image her family desires.
Getting wrapped round her little finger, Gunnar Bjornstrand gives a wonderful dead-pan performance as Stenwall, whose push/pull between the "sisters" allows Bjornstrand to leave Stenwall flustered.
Wearing some of The Prince and the Pauper robes in adapting the Ralph Benatzky operetta/ Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil's play,Solve Cederstrand wonderfully plays on Hassel's card trick double identity,slipping and sliding towards her having to rush to change between Birgitta and Katarina before Stenwall catches on. Contrasting the two persona's of Hassel, director Schamyl Bauman lights a stark contrast between each "sister", giving Birgitta a normal, down to earth appearance, crystallised by the shimmering regal lighting for the other sister.
View on the film:
Playing not one, but two members of the family, Sickan Carlsson gives hilarious sparkling turns as "sisters" Katarina and Birgitta Hassel,as she fools everyone thanks to Carlsson giving Birgitta a feisty, sarcastic streak, which runs in the other direction of the refine, regal manner Carlsson has Hassel hold Katarina up in,in order to present the image her family desires.
Getting wrapped round her little finger, Gunnar Bjornstrand gives a wonderful dead-pan performance as Stenwall, whose push/pull between the "sisters" allows Bjornstrand to leave Stenwall flustered.
Wearing some of The Prince and the Pauper robes in adapting the Ralph Benatzky operetta/ Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil's play,Solve Cederstrand wonderfully plays on Hassel's card trick double identity,slipping and sliding towards her having to rush to change between Birgitta and Katarina before Stenwall catches on. Contrasting the two persona's of Hassel, director Schamyl Bauman lights a stark contrast between each "sister", giving Birgitta a normal, down to earth appearance, crystallised by the shimmering regal lighting for the other sister.
