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)
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