Just to take a serious turn for the moment…
I am a HUGE fan of those dark and brooding Scandinavian films where life and death and their darkest intimations are studied in bleak detail, where the viewer is not permitted to avert his gaze from the forbidding void that is our inescapable fate. You know — those shadowy cinematic meditations from the likes of Ingmar Bergman and the late, great Bjorni Yorgibjorn (and if you don’t know who he is, well, sucks to be you, doesn’t it?).
That’s why I’m thrilled beyond all imagination that I have stumbled upon this short film, De Düva (1968), online — a film so obscure and so forbidding that it’s not even on YouTube. I first saw it many years ago and it has haunted me ever since. Running time is about fourteen minutes, so set aside at least that much time for some high-quality existential dread.
I’m not kidding. You will want to see this. Trust me. It could change you.
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May 26, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Random Kath
Goodness! Where do you find this stuff?
So glad that you are back posting again . . .
May 26, 2008 at 5:25 pm
admin
On the Internet, silly!
May 26, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Random Kath
Oooh. You have ads now. How fancy!
May 26, 2008 at 9:36 pm
admin
Never mind that. Did you see Madeline Kahn in the movie clip?
May 27, 2008 at 9:12 am
Random Kath
Yes, I did! I figured something was up about the movie, but when I recognized her, I felt vindicated.
Like I said, I can be a little slow sometimes . . .