L'Heure d'été

Aurore had won two tickets to the film L'Heure d'été by Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours).
We went, we saw and we liked it. Not particularly innovating but a nice story with good actors.

The sixth barrel

Again we visited the Sixth Barrel (Sjätte tunnan) in the Old Town, a restaurant I can recommend for those of you interested in real medieval ambience combined with good food.
The food is also of medieval character of course.

There are at least on vegetarian alternative.

We enjoyed the evening very much, Aurore and I!

Medieval music both live and through speaker units.

(Photo from the entrance and bar copied from: http://whatsupsthlm.se/images/content/blog/12/fotobloggen_20091029040036.jpg)
(Photo tables and wall with painting copied from: http://content.expressen.se/blog/51/49/62/tuff-tuff/images/bild1_72ppi.jpg)
(Photo table against the inner part of the restaurant copied dfrom: http://whatsupsthlm.se/images/content/location/1130/sjatte_tunnan%286%29.jpg)

Extra in The Millenium trilogy: The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest

I samarbete med Filmtrailer.se
I was called to work as an extra today: The Millenium trilogy, written by Stieg Larsson.

This was the third part: Luftslottet som sprängdes (The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest/La Reine dans le palais des courants d'air).
Stieg Larsson is also related to my family as he grew up in or near Bjursele (Norsjö municipality) from where my family and my name emanates. Our family-name was originally Larsson-Knip.
My great grandfather (born in 1843) changed it, using the name of the village as he thought that Larsson was to common a name in Sweden.
The relation to Stieg Larsson is another story and for the details I have to ask my aunt Elvy, having worked with genealogical research... (To be contined...).

Vattenspeglar

It had been a while since we visited Millesgården.
For the vernissage of this exhibition, the gallery hall was overcrowded.
Works of some prestigious names (Liljefors...) hang on the walls, but unfortunately the quality of these water reflections was very unequal.
We had been fooled.

Where were they, these water mirrors? In the remote fountain of this landscape? Half painted in the harbour of this or that one?

I guess we are too picky, but when we go to see Water paintings, we expect something more poetic and more skilled than what we experienced this time.
We hope that the next vernissage will surprise us in a more positive way.

(Photo of painting of boats copied from: http://lidingosidan.se/images/1016.jpg)
(Photo of painting of a mill copied from: http://lidingosidan.se/images/1018.jpg)
(Photo of painting depicting the 'Näcken' playing his harp copied from: http://lidingosidan.se/images/1019.jpg)

Lura Ögat /Tromp l'oeil

Once again we are perplex.

The poster was great, the subject was interesting, but the exhibition... less.
Or more.
This was the problem: there were far too many works, and not all of them were worth their place in the National Museum.
With less artworks the exhibition had been a curatorial success: Tight, clever, interesting.
With this third extra, it became a cake with too much sugar and too much mediocre chocolate; very difficult to eat.

(Photo boy through a frame copied from: http://www.lakartidningen.se/store/images/7/7545/large/Lura_ogat_1.jpg)
(Photo man with the head in a bucket copied from: http://www.onculture.eu/thumbnails%5C425-4.gif)
(Photo of woman undressing her skin copied from: http://www.onculture.eu/thumbnails%5C425-2.gif)
(Photo papers on a wall copied from: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRv2GDrPtPMtefNhm0k-pTchzE91HvvaYZ1oIrTdhS8rTLVu2AbULP_OAjR523lIM9qn-gmyRIIk5qavEaKvNqEz5E0FzcqSozWyr57uF28Xo5SIz2viypaP_y8o4gBzSGuj5R/s800/lura_ogat_6764.jpg)