Millesgården, Chabrol and Bournonville

Aurore worked with her research in the morning.

At half past one we went to Millesgården (the museum in Lidingö were the sculptor Carl Milles lived and worked for many years. Has been a museum since the 1950:s), invited to an exhibition with the Norwegian artist/painter Ida Lorentzen.

(Photo Ida Lorentzen taken from://www.idalorentzen.com/)

The name of the exhibition: 'White Light'.

Lorentzen has been called the "painter of stillness".

She depict rooms, sparsely furnished or not furnished at all, with light and shadows being a central part of her compositions.
Somewhat inspired - among others - by the painters Vilhelm Hammershöi and Edward Hopper.

She is one of Norways most wellknown and appreciated artists. Neither one of us were impressed.

Wine and peanuts(!?) were served - not even a small piece of cheese!?

In the afternoon we saw Claude Chabrols film La Demoiselle d'honneur ("The Bridesmaid") (trailer above), made in 2004 but not shown in Sweden until now!

Not a particularly interesting film. 
Chabrol tries to build up a sense of tension in waiting for a climax which ends in an anticlimax. Predictable.

Not bad but certainlly not Chabrol at his peak.

After this Aurore went home to continue her studying. 

I continued to an outdoor performance with the Royal Opera Ballet and a small work by Antoine Bournonville (the father of August) containing both dancing and pantomime. A small peccadillo, but nice!

Antoine Bournonville by Per Krafft the Elder

(Photo painting, Antoine Bournonville: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Antoine_Bournonville#/media/File:Antoine_Bournonville_by_Per_Krafft,_the_Older.jpg)