Elvira Madigan

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Elvira Madigan

PG

1967

1h 29m

Romance

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Hedvig Jensen (Pia Degermark) has been performing as a tightrope walker under the name Elvira Madigan for years. When she meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre (Thommy Berggren) in the Danish countryside, the two fall in love and decide to run away together. Sixten, an army deserter, has trouble finding work, and the couple face hard times. Then Sixten meets an old friend who questions his choices and urges him to leave Hedvig before their life becomes even tougher.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Elvira Madigan is indeed remarkably beautiful, Almost every frame would make a painting, and yet the film is alive and cinematic, not simply photographs of pretty pictures.

Rated: 4/4

Mar 4, 2019

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James Kendrick

Q Network Film Desk

Widerberg succeeds magnificently in weaving an air of languid, poetic romanticism that is nevertheless punctuated at times with bits of harsh reality

Rated: 3.5/4

Oct 6, 2023

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Scott Nye

Battleship Pretension

With his first color film, Widerberg and cinematographer Jörgen Persson embrace the aesthetics of impressionist painters, creating a look much like that which Agnes Varda employed two years prior in La bonheur.

Aug 31, 2023

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Gene Youngblood

Los Angeles Free Press

That a film should not be well-made in this age of technology is flatly unforgiveable.

Jan 31, 2020

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Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

I have no patience for the unrealistic and rather personality-challenged lovers as they cavort through sun-dappled fields.

Rated: 3/5

Apr 13, 2011

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Liebestod as a shampoo commercial

Sep 22, 2009

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Audience Member

A masterpiece. The music and photography, the lightness of a true story which has the meaning of little revolution against any social convention. Working, buying and selling, social duties, social roles..and on the other side the flight of a butterfly, which is a perfect metaphor of a life deeply and shortly lived.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/11/23

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A beautifully filmed movie--very romantic. A good date movie.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Heavy little movie. And definitely doesn't feel like a 60's film. Mid 70's definitely. Anyway, I cried. You'll probably cry too. Very effective filmmaking. Creeps up on you. Stick with it, even if the beginning causes you to roll your eyes.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Audience Member

Cinematographically and thematically quite lovely, but overall too boring for me.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Audience Member

Never before or since, has a movie so involved people that a CLASSICAL music piece famous in it's own right---becomes "Elvira Madigan" music--Mozart's 21st Piano concerto! SO there had to be something in it to involve the audience!

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Synopsis

Hedvig Jensen (Pia Degermark) has been performing as a tightrope walker under the name Elvira Madigan for years. When she meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre (Thommy Berggren) in the Danish countryside, the two fall in love and decide to run away together. Sixten, an army deserter, has trouble finding work, and the couple face hard times. Then Sixten meets an old friend who questions his choices and urges him to leave Hedvig before their life becomes even tougher.

Director: Bo Widerberg
Producer: Waldemar Bergendahl, Peter Fernandez
Screenwriter: Bo Widerberg
Production Co: Europa Film
Rating: PG
Genre: Romance
Original Language: Swedish
Runtime: 1h 29m
Sound Mix: Mono
Aspect Ratio: 35mm

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