The Trouble with Angels

At one of the so called "Academic bookstores" (Akademibokhandeln in Swedish. The biggest but not the best bookstore in Sweden or Stockholm, as I've written before) in Stockholm I listened to the Swedish writer and professor in History of ideas and learning (if this is the correct translation?) Sven-Eric Liedman talking about his latest book; "Stones in the Soul" (Stenar i själen).

In this book he discusses the question about form and matter from different angles and how it shapes our perception of the World.

It's the last book in a trilogy where he thoroughly penetrates topics that have engaged him for many years. "In the shadow of the Future" (I skuggan av framtiden) was the first book.

After this I went on to see two films at the cinematek: The Trouble with Angels by Ida Lupino and The White Tower by Ted Tetzlaff.

The first film is described as a queermovie dealing with the problems or opportunities two young girls face when they are sent to a convent school with teachers being nuns.
Friendship and underlying homosexual love?

The reality was that this was a light-weight movie about young people in their teens trying to break borders and put the adults to a test in different ways.
A very innocent movie with no queer motif what so ever.

The White Tower with among others Alida Valli, Glenn Ford, Claude Rains and Lloyd Bridges was a pathetic, moralizing lecture about right and wrong and who is always right and who is always wrong.

A woman wants to climb a mountain in Switzerland, a mountain that noone ever has succeeded in climbing. Her father died in trying to do so. She engages five men of whom one is a german with 'übermensch-ideal' who of course, in rejecting help from others, dies.
She gives up her ideals when the 'good' guy - an american of course - gets injured in trying to climb the mountain.
She moves with him to USA despite him having no ideals or aspirations.

Gunnar's birthday and Niklas Mulari at the Finlandsinstitutet

 MY BIRTHDAY (GUNNAR)!

At five pm Aurore and I went to The Finland Institute in Stockholm where they had arranged a cultural evening with among other things a vernissage with the Finnish painter Niclas Mulari (Utställning: Niklas Mulari ).

We were not extremely impressed or excited. Five paintings on relatively big canvases.

Well we drank good wine anyway!

 

(Painting copied from: http://www.konstkalendern.se/bilder_galleristatdsteatern_mulari.jpg)

La ciociara

La ciociara ("The two women") is a film by Vittorio De Sica.

It's the Italian Filmfestival presenting this film this time.

A relatively good film, about a mother and her daughter, their fight to survive during the second World War.
The mother - Sophia Loren - alone with a daughter after her elderly husband died.
Rumours says she married him for money.
She is running a grocery store and when their city is bombed by the Allied during the last days of the dictatorship of 'Il Duce', she and her daughter tries to flee.

They are heading towards Rome.

Jean-Paul Belmondo plays an intellectual who want's to stay out of the war and criticise his own country (Italy) and Il Duce for being a degenerate people with a likewise leader.

The mother and daughter suffers lots of hardship during their escape. This hardens the daughter and make her cool and emotionally disturbed. Among other things they are raped by turkish soldiers, working with the allies.

Belmondo gets killed by the nazis and the film has an open ending.

"la CIOCIARA"
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Mahmoud Darwish

Mahmoud Darwish is a Palestinian poet and author who is regarded as the Palestinian national poet. 

Darwish uses Palestine as a metaphor for the loss of Eden, birth and resurrection, and the anguish of dispossession and exile. 

He has been described as incarnating and reflecting "the tradition of the political poet in Islam, the man of action whose action is poetry.".

He also serves as an editor for several literary magazines in Israel.

We had the pleasure listening to him at the Cultural Center in Stockholm (Kulturhuset). He spoke, was interviewed and read some of his poems.

The interesting thing about this last readings, was that one had two Swedish persons reading his poems in Swedish, before he himself read them in Arab.

Although we do not understand Arab, neither Aurore, nor I, we became much more fascinated with his reading then with the Swedish interpretations.

This to a part due to the fact that he read them with ardour and passion, reflecting the content of his writing while the Swedish "interpreters" read in a typically anemic Swedish or Nordic fashion, withouot feelings or the fervor Darwish displayed.

We felt the same thing as we had felt when listening to Adonis the 9th of May this year.

Thanks to Darwish (not the Swedish representatives) this evening became magic.

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The Paradine Case & Montenegro & Italian wine and Swiss cheese

Two movies at Cinema Sture:

The Paradine Case by Alfred Hitchcock and with Alida Valli in the leading role.
Her role character is a woman accused of having murdered her husband, an old and rich man.

Gregory Peck plays a young and succesful lawyer (attorney) who takes on her case.
He falls in love with this woman and confronts problems both at home, with his wife, and with people he talks to concerning this mysterious (a role Valli often plays, unfortunately) woman and her background and credibility.

Peck's lawyer tries to put the blame on a servant with whom the woman seems to have had an affair.
He gets jealous at this servant when confronted with him as he accuse Vallis character of being a "evil woman".

Because of Pecks and Vallis ambivalence, Peck doesn't succeed in defending her. She is sentenced to death.


Film n:o 2:
Montenegro ("Montenegro or Pigs and Pearls") by Dusan Makavejev with Erland Josephson in one of the leading roles.
This was Josephson's own choice of film.

During the autumn the Swedish Cinematek is going to show some of the films Josephson has chosen where he also acts.
He should himself have been present but due to health problems, he unfortunately couldn't attend.

This film starts of in a good and absurd way but deteriorates.

Josephsson is travelling a lot in his work and he and his wife and children live in a relatively big house in a fashionable suburb of Stockholm (Lidingö!).

Soon one can see signs of her not feeling psychologically well. Her husband - Josephsson - is going abroad and at a late stage she desides to follow him though he allready is at the airport. She misses the plane, meet a group of people who wants to help her.
They take her to a combined club, drugstore, cabaret where she stays and begins a life of her own far away from the socially well established life she was leading with her husband.
The husband thinks she has been kidnapped.

He starts a life of his own, free from any restrictions that the marriage impose on him.

A psychiatrist - actor Per Oscarsson - becomes his best friend.
The same psychiatrist who Josephsson hired to help his wife. His wife becomes in a way more liberated and so does he.

Otherwise this film was a mishap!

In the evening Aurore and I visited the Italian Cultural Institute (photo above). They arranged with a degustation du vin et du fromage.

Italian and Swiss wines and cheeses. Six wines and six cheeses, three from each country.

When the director talked about the italian wines and cheeses, he happened to say that Italy has the best wines and the best cheeses, ending with the words: "The French have to excuse us"! 
"Buuuuuhhhh" was heard from the audience - Aurore of course!
The director of the Italian Institute looked surprised and said: 
"Oh, I'm sorry, we obviously have a French representative here!"
They asked if there were any other French visitors in the audience and besides Aurore there was one more woman.

However, after having tasted the cheeses and the wines, we could conclude that the Swiss cheeses where the best, two out of six wines were good.

(Photo copyright: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Italienska_kulturinst.jpg/250px-Italienska_kulturinst.jpg)

Il Caimano & I vitteloni

Reading and working in the morning.


Visiting Cinema Sture where I watch a relatively new film by Nanni Moretti: Il Caimano ("The Caiman"/"Kajmanen - B-filmarens revansch").

This film is about an unfortunate B-film producer. Noone wants to help him finance his latest project and his is also in the process of divorcing his wife. They have two children.
Initially he wants to make a film about Christopher Columbus and his glorious(?) return from America but drops the idea when he meets a young woman who has written a script called Il Caiman.

He agrees to make this film without having read the script. The young woman, with no experience of the filmindustry is going to direct it.
When he finally realises it's a story about Berlusconi, criticising him for being corrupted and a clown (true but hardly controversial?), he hesitates to make it.
Most of his friends, the actors and other involved in the project feels this item being to controversial.

At the same time they conclude that "everybody knows about how manipulative and corrupted Berlusconi is".
We follow the making of the film, the backlashes and the final result for better or worse.

From a scale from one to five I give it three+ points.


I Vitelloni | Federico Fellini (1953) Trailer
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I vitteloni ("The gang"/"Gänget") by Federico Fellini is film number two this day.
This film tells the story about a group of young men in a small town in Italy who all have big dreams concerning their future.

They want to leave the small countrytown where they lived all their lives and move to a bigger city where they of course expect things to become much better.

One of them leaves but comes back after a while, gets married and continues his life as before more or less. Only one of them finally leave for good, the one who noone thought would leave.
We follow their lifes, their struggle to survive both mentally and economically, preferably without working, love affairs, and pleasures.

Between three and four points I give this film 3+.

Between these two movies, we visit the covert market, Östermalms saluhall a relatively big temple of food in the most fashionable part of Stockholm.
There we happened to see one of Swedens most celebrated and published authors, Jan Guillou. He is a regular customer.
A former communist who with increasing wealth created through his books about the Swedish intelligence man Carl Hamilton and the medieval character Arn, since long leads a life far from any of the ideals he ones claimed he cherisched! Not a new story but a recurrent theme within the chic-leftists in Sweden and many other European countries.

You might remember Jean Paul Sartre who refused to accept the Nobel Prize in litterature but who - after a couple of years when he was short of money - contacted the Nobel committee wanting his Nobel Prize money disbursed!

Oh ideals, how fast you vanish!

Jag är nyfiken - La haine - Troll - Akai satsui

Tuesday studies, Wednesday studies and two films at cinema Sture:

Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult ("I am Curious /Yellow/") by Vilgot Sjöman and La haine ("Medan vi faller" in Swedish) by Mathieu Kassovitz.

The first film by Sjöman was a groundbreaking movie when it was released in 1967, with its metafilm-story, the nudity and outspoken social critics with an pseudo documentary angle.


La Haine is a story about three young men from different origin in the suburbs of Paris during the 1990:s. Their friendship, their conflicts with the police, skinheads and also within their group.

On Thursday I saw Troll by Vilgot Sjöman - a somewhat surrealistic film about a couple trying to get their sexlife functioning but who, at the same time, are afraid to have sex as they are convinced they are going to die (the little death)! After the movie I went to the book store Akademibokhandeln.


Next film on the agenda this day is Akai satsui ("Intentions of murder") by Shohei Imamura.

It's a film about a woman who in her home get attacked by a man who rob her and rape her.
She first wants to kill herself because of this 'disgrace' as she understands this situation according to traditions.
She graduely becomes a bit attracted by this man who visit her again and proclame that he is in love with her.
An ambivalent feeling is exposed in this young womans reaction and it becomes a dangerous game between the two of them.
Her husband, grandmother and son also play an important role in this story.

Now it's half past twelve in the night and I am going to bed.

Good night!

9/11 and The Celluloid Closet

Five years has passed since the Twin Tower (World Trade Center)-attack and of course a multitude of commemorative programs in TV and radio.

This was an extremely tragic event for those families struck by this but are there not many other and a lot more tragic human catastrophies going on in the world besides this? Of course, all the time. 

Not least the USA itself has often, historically and today, waged war killing many, many more innocent people. The US has also intervened in countries where they "installed" fascist governments in fear of an eventual socialist or communist regime. These fascist governments have in turn tortured and killed tens of thousands of people and more. 

Besides the US we have all the other world powers and even small countries having been involved in atrocities, far worse than this.

The ethnocentric or sociocentric viewpoint is is here clearly emphasized.

Now we leave this and go on to...

The Swedish Filminstitute, as this is our goal today.
Reading, studying.

I went on to cinema Sture and the film 'The Celluloid Closet' by R. Epstein and J. Friedman, a documentary about homosexual layers/insinuations in Hollywood-movies.
A rather conventional story about a topic for many years being a 'tabu' in American film .
The history circles around gay and lesbian motives in film, how they 'came out' in the open, when, wherefore, why at a certain point and so forth.
The interesting parts in this documentary were the sequences from different movies with a more or less pronounced or hidden gay theme.

I met with an elderly man and one of the most faithful filmlovers and friends of the 'Cinemateket' in Stockholm - Max. He has worked with witness-psychology among other things. Has often been engaged in investigations concerning sex-crimes and the like. He visits the cinema almost every day. He is retired.

Met Aurore at cinema Sture from where we went down-town to eat an ice-cream and then to the N.K department store.
From there back home. Dinner, further work for Aurore with her paper.

I listened to the news and a program about music and how it affects us emotionally, why and in what ways.

Today I am allergic. Pollen!

Good night!

Bhutan and After the Wedding

Today it's Sunday and the weather is nice. Sunny and around twenty degrees Celsius.

Among other activities in Stockholm today there is the so called Skeppsholmsdagen ("Skeppsholms-day").
Skeppsholmen is one of the small islands in Stockholm where The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, The Photo Gallery and other institutions are situated.

This day they have an Asian festival.

Aurore and I visit The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities contributing with - among other things - an exhibition about Bhutan.

A Swedish journalist and photographer visitied Bhutan during 2003 and 2006 where they tried to document the lives of ordinary (but often extraordinary) people during the current transition from a monarchy to democracy.
The two women where invited to the museum to talk about their experiences but unfortunately most Swedish don't understand that they have to be quiet and turn off their mobile telephones.
The exhibition and photographs were not particularly interesting. Not because of the subject in it self - Bhutan - but because they didn't tell me so much about this country as I hoped and as I guess was the intention. 

On the way to the museum, the busdriver drove past us without stopping at the bus stop telling us when next bus would arrive. The bus were not full. We caught him at Skeppsholmen and gave him a telling-off, reminding him that he worked with a service occupation.


After this it's film time: Susanne Bier; and her film Efter brylluppet ("After the Wedding"/"Efter bröllopet") with Mads Mikkelsen, Rolf Lassgård and Sidse Babett Knudsen. 
The film tells the story about Jacob Pedersen (Madsen), an aid-worker in India.
Pedersen is offered a great sum of money as a contribution to the work he is carrying out but in order to get hold of the money he have to visit Denmark to meet the billionaire and donor, Jørgen Lennart Hannson (Lassgård) to discuss the details around the donation.
When he meets Hannson's wife - Helene (Sidse Babett Knudsen) - he realizes that she's a former lover. She too recognizes him.
The daughter in the family is the real daughter of Helene Hannsson but the father turns out to be Jacob Pedersen. Complications.

A bit melodramatic we thought but a rather good script.

Home, dinner, private things and a good nights sleep!




(Photo map Bhutan taken from: http://smartraveller.gov.au/Maps/Bhutan.gif)
(Photo Bhutan taken from: http://www.infoaventura.com/fotos/Butan_02.jpg)

Huysmans & Pilsnerfilmer & Imamura

Trying to wake Aurore up. Not an easy task today.

Breakfast, reading Huysmans.

Better weather today but we are 'blowing in the wind...'!

At the Swedish Filminstitute Aurore continues her work while I continue reading about Swedish film from late 19th century til the present day.

Today I concentrate on the 1930:s and among other things the so called pilsner-film(s) ("pilz-movies", beer-movies" or "lager-movies").

This is an extract from one classic 'Pilsner Movie/Film': Pensionat Paradiset

A low-water mark in Swedish film when it comes to quality.
Strangely enough - or not strange at all as one can see similar developments in other countries around the world - these films were very popular with the audience, particularly the working class in Sweden.
One might add, that not all of these films are bad, there are some that are quite watchable. These are better than their reputation but suffers from the overall quality of these œuvres.

From SFI to cinema Sture and the film 'Kuroi ame' ('Black Rain'/'Svart regn') by Shohei Imamura.

This film deals with the aftermath and vast consequences of the atombombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

We follow a family, a young woman and her aunt and uncle when they are hit by the catastrophe and what becomes of them, their internal relations and relations to other people; their health and the constant threat of dying from the long term complications of radiation.
A moving, dramatic film that depicts every person in a way making you taking an interest in and becoming engaged in their individual fates. One of the best films I'v ever seen, depicting this dreadful episode in Japanese history.

Aurore and I than meet in order to go to Systembolaget to buy some wine (Red: 'Oude Kaap', a Cabernet Sauvignon from South-Africa; White: 'Gloria', a Chardonnay from Italy. Another red wine?? Don't remember?).

Dinner at home with Joakim at his 39th birthday.

Rain gutters are being put up at our house.

The Swedish "Watergate-story" with the Swedish liberal party's party leader in one of the leading roles continues. His closest co-workers have trespassed the website of the social-democratic party and hereby they have gotten hold of crucial information not intended for others than the members of the inner circle in the social-democratic party.
Naughty, naughty!!

Netvibes a sauvé ma vie :)

J'ai découvert Netvibes et depuis hier, j'ai l'impression de gagner beaucoup de temps.La conférence Igelu s'est achevée au SFI. Ca veut dire que j'éviterai les idiots qui parlaient à la bibliothèque ;)

Côté études, j'ai trop écrit aujourd'hui et je suis fatiguée depuis 16h30.
J'ai fait une petite recherche sur les activités à faire en octobre à La Châtre, et j'espère que je trouverai de quoi épater mon fiancé!!

Gunnar est allé voir La Robe de Vilgot Sjöman, et il a trouvé le film très peu abouti et médiocre.

Nous venons de voir un nanard sur la 6 Phone Booth (Joel Schumacher) et nous nous apprêtons à aller faire de beaux rêves (bande-annonce ci-dessous).

N.B: aujourd'hui était un jour à Jaguar. Que du plaisir pour les yeux 8)

'It's raining today...!'

Accompanied Aurore to SFI and continued reading about Swedish filmhistory.

Went to cinema Sture to see 'The Dress' ('Klänningen') by Vilgot Sjöman. Not one of his more interesting films.

Neither content nor acting made any impression.

Met Aurore outside The National Theatre and after drinking a cup of coffee we went home.

Huysmans and Furhammar

Working in the garden. Trying to get our lawn in as good a shape as possible. Talking to a toad I meet where he lies in the grass.

Aurore and I leave our read little house for a visit to the big grey house, the Swedish Filminstitute.
Continuing her research work, I read about Swedish filmhistory.

From there we went on to the art cinema Zita. 
There we saw two short films made by Stefan Jarl:
Epilogue, a film completing(?) the trilogy about Kenta and Stoffe, two men with severe drug problems. These films have become, what one might call, a classic critical survey of the Social Democratic so called Folk's Home or The People's Home (Folkhemmet). This idea not being as beautiful and harmful as it has been depicted by the Party (as convinced social democrats calls it).

Jarl tries to depict their life in three films made in parts during almost three decades.

The second short film: "Cows are fine" (Kor är fina), is a film about the consequences of our EU-membership seen from the point of view of a small farmer in Sweden.

Continuing my reading of Huysman: À rebours, a fascinating story about des Esseintes, the highly eccentric leading character in the book.

At the Swedish Filminstitute I continue reading about the history of Swedish film (Filmen i Sverige, photo below), a book written by one of our foremost film historians, Leif Furhammar. This is - to date - the best and most comprehensive book about Swedish film.

(Photo cover 'À rebours' taken from: http://multimedia.fnac.com/multimedia/images_produits/ZoomPE/3/8/9/9782070368983.jpg)

(Photo backside 'À rebours' taken from: http://www.images-chapitre.com/ima2/original/701/750701_2878549.jpg)

(Photo cover 'Filmen i Sverige' taken from:http://image.bokus.com/
images/9789175041582_200x_filmen-i-sverige-en-historia-i-tio-kapitel-och-en-fortsattning)

Erik Gunnar Asplund

(Photo Erik Gunnar Asplund taken from:http://www.esacademic.com/pictures/eswiki/71/Gunnar_Asplund_1940.jpg)

(Photo chairs Erik Gunnar Asplund taken from: http://www.bonluxat.com/cmsense/data/uploads/
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Institut du Film (le mémoire fait 73 pages pour l'instant).

Un fika avec une serveuse qui s'est plaint de mon (Aurore) "dialecte" (idiote).

Une conférence sur Asplund au Musée d'Architecture. Pas très intéressant, mais bon...

Cambridge professor Peter Blundell- Jones talks about the world famous Swedish architect Gunnar Asplund (Town liberary in Stockholm, Skogskyrkogården), about how he discovered him, comparing him with other similar architects who has influenced Asplund and whom Asplund have had and infuence on.

Bonheur du jour: Die Erlösung sur le blog de Ptithom!

The Insect Woman & Les yeux sans visage

Two more movies at 'Cinemateket':


Nippon konchuki (The Insect Woman) by Shohei Imamura.This is a film about a woman who lives in an incestuous relationship with her father but finally decides to leave her home in order to settle down in Tokyo. After having tried a diversity of jobs she ends up as a prostitute and the main responsible for a brothel.
Meanwhile her daughter stays at home, overtaking her mother's role as mistress to her grandfather.
After a couple of years the daughter also moves to Tokyo, starting to live in the same way as her mother but contrary to the latter, she has other plans. She wants to start a farm of her own. Finally she succeeds.
This is an ethically profound œuvre and important questions are evoked throughout this film, well worth seeing.

The second film - Les Yeux sans visage - by Georges Franju is a film about a surgeon who is responsible for having damaged his daughters face in a car accident.
He now tries to help her by transplanting tissue from women who he and his nurse/secretary/mistress kidnaps. A nasty business which ends in disaster for all parts involved.
A bit melodramatic but also quite thrilling.
Could have become more exciting if it hadn't been a bit to predictable.

491 & Pigs and Battleship

(Photo from: http://www.malba.org.ar/evento/201504111800/)

'491' by Vilgot Sjöman. This is a film Aurore has written a paper about at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris VIII, a paper never validated because of a negligent University teacher (there are quite a number of those in France).

It's a movie that reveals the social experiments the governement undertook during the 1960:s and -70:s in Sweden when it came to rehabilitating young criminals.

A great failure from the societies side, a failure Sjöman is exposing in his film.
In doing so he partly demonstrates the naive way in which some social workers tended to meet the problems, partly how high officials toke advantage of the situation and exploited the people they were going to help.

The atmosphere is extremely well depicted, so are the attitudes and the picture given of the politically dictated preventive measures initiated by the authorities.
Not much has changed to this day.

The naivity among Swedish psychiatrists, psycologists and social workers (among others) is still a predominant feature in their work.

(Photo from 'Buta to gunkan' taken from://kinobank.org/movie/29149/)

Buta to gunkan ("Pigs and Battleships") by Shohei Imamura.

In some parts unintentionally amusing when describing a young criminals efforts to break free from the mob. He is drawn to criminals but tries to leave the criminal life he is leading. Loyalty and favours pulls him back in to the criminal world.
It ends with total and irreversible defeat, as so often in 'real life'.

The pigs? If talking about the animals, they also play a small part in this film.

(Photo from 'Buta to gunkan' taken from: http://kinobank.org/movie/29149/)

Mickey One

(Poster 'Mickey One' copied from: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KETk_nJdn6M/S7Gs5TGqtxI/

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Saturday 2/9: Cinemateket. We saw 'Mickey One' by director Arthur Penn with among others Warren Beatty.

Beatty plays a stand-up comedian who owes the Mafia money. He flees and try to find work in other cities. He becomes to popular wherever he goes and this causes him problem as the mob tends to find him wherever he tries to hide.
The violence in the film is typically 'Penn-like'.
The end is ambiguous and Penn writes that he didn't have a definitive answer to present the audience. I like Penn's aesthetics, though this movie has a thin story.

(Poster from 'La grande strada azzura' taken from: 
http://www.budterence.it/img_video/dvd/dvd_ita/_ter_strada.jpg)

'La Grande strada azzurra, by Gillo Pontecorvo with Yves Montand and Alida Valli (who died this year).

The frame story is about a fisherman (Montand) who uses illegal methods when he goes fishing - dynamite. His wife (Valli) is always worried that an accident will occur, not least because he always brings his son's when working.
He can also be said to characterize the individual and his right to make his own decisions without obeying the collective, in this case the other fishermen.
As the police dissaproves of his methods he is a threat to the his fellow friends at sea.
He also causes his wife a lot of trouble with his stubbornness.
The film was a dissapointment even though the actors and actressess were good.

Pontecorvo has made a much better film, namely 'La Battaglia di Algeri,' ('The Battle of Algiers'), a film most of you must be familiar with.
If not, I recommend it as it's one of the best descriptions of war, far from the American clichées with heros and 'heroic deeds'.

Jens Assur

Jens Assur:

(Photo Jens Assur copied from:http://ng.se/pictures/2006/06/27.6.2006-13_06_1.jpg)

Aurore continues here research without yet receiving any answers from her university concerning deadline for her work!

Tonight at six o'clock we went to the Museum of Modern Arts to see Jens Assur's mediocre exhibition dedicated to the urban youth. Yes he is a renowned and acclaimed photographer but this exhibition did not impress neither of us.

The same night when we came home I rang the Security Company - Securitas - in charge of the guards/watchmen working to night. We had forgot some very important properties, that the men working as guards refused us to get hold of after the exhibition. I had to hold back my anger, not giving them a punch. 
Unfortunately they are quite representative for some people not being able to understand that service and being service-minded is a part of their job, the most important part.

The head of the night shift said that he found their behaviour unacceptable and he promised to talk to them.

We then wrote the director of the Museum, Lars Nittve and the association The Friends of the Museum of Modern Art, where we are members, explaining the whole situation. Hopefully we get an answer tomorrow.