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Monday, January 23, 2006

The Outlaw and His Wife (1918) part3 - Victor Sjostrom

This is the last PART out of 3 (with a total of 181 captures) dedicated to
Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru aka The Outlaw and His Wife one of the first masterpiece in Cinematograph by Victor Sjöström.

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"After a long life, Misery fell on them /
Hunger tore apart what Time has weaved between them
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"Kill me before you leave."
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"Stab me so it will make me believe my child bite my breast while sucking it."
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"I dreamt about us / Our only law was love /
After a long life, Misery came /
We went out together in the snow to die
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"We have to live as long as possible."
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"Get me some wood i'm cold."
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It is time to pay tribute to Julius Jaenzon, the cinematographer without whom this movie wouldn't have been that important. He was also the cinematographer of those masterpieces : The Phantom Carriage by Sjöström in 1921 & Sir Arne's Treasure by Mauritz Stiller, not to forget the first Garbo movie : The Legend of Gosta Berling.

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"The Swedes created a poetic aesthetic in images. The Outlaw and His Wife was a model of the genre, more related to art and music than to theatres. Sjöström, in a mood of flowing and poignant light, has created a concentrated simplicity, an authenticity, and an inner, impassioned lyricism free from unnecessary gestures. With help from Nature, with its pure, clear lines, marvelously photographed à la Rembrandt, Sjöström was the first in Europe(and one may say in the entire world) to utilize light as a dramatic element, above all in the tragic sense."
Eve Francis. Temps Héroiques. 1921.

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"A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family's starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland's mountains."
Erik Gregersen @IMDB

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These frames are taken from a rare broadcast on France3 Cine-Club around 1995.
The Outlaw and His Wife has been released on VHS in june 2000 by Kino video, and it seems that there is a Laserdisc edition that has been released in the nineties.

You should check these books if you're looking for more info about Sjöström :
Bengt Forslund. Victor Sjöström: His Life and His Work. New York: Zoetrope, 1988.
René Jeanne & Charles Ford. Victor Sjöström. Classiques du Cinema. Editions Universitaires. 1963.

See you nex monday for another tribute...
if i find time to do it...

bye bye now.

 
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