Oh, these women
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Oh, these women |
| Original title | För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ingmar Bergman |
| script | Ingmar Bergman Erland Josephson |
| music | Erik Nordgren |
| camera | Sven Nykvist |
| cut | Ulla Ryghe |
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| synchronization | |
Oh, these women (original title: För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor ) is a Swedish satirical comedy film by Ingmar Bergman from 1964 .
action
The critic Cornelius moves into the villa of the famous cellist Felix to write a biography about him. He never gets to see him, but his wife and six mistresses . The arrogant and self-loving Cornelius now begins to write down the external events. He ends up in bed with Hummel, one of Felix's lovers. There he is shot at because a competitor believes he is Felix, who deviates from the agreed allocation plan of the mistresses. Disturbed, he reports of an attempted murder on Felix, but nobody listens to him.
He also has closer contact with other playmates and clearly enjoys it. Always looking for a personal conversation in order to be able to write a detailed biography, Cornelius only hears Felix playing music, but does not see him. Felix's secretary advises him that he should dress up as a woman in order to be admitted to the musician. This plan fails miserably. Angrily, Cornelius tries to blackmail Felix. He demands that the latter play a piece composed by Cornelius at his next concert, otherwise he will not write a biography and Felix will be forgotten after his death.
When the concert takes place in the house, Cornelius' hideous piece is actually intoned. When Felix tries to get in with the cello, he slumps down dead. After the women's mourning period is over, an unknown but promising young musician is accepted into their home. Without ever having spoken to Felix personally, Cornelius wrote a biography about Felix anyway.
background
Production and film launch
Oh, this women started on June 15, 1964 in Swedish and on August 14 of the same year in German cinemas.
Position in Bergman's work
Bergman's first color film, which he had prepared meticulously with his new regular cameraman Sven Nykvist , turned out to be an artistic and financial failure, contrary to hopes. In addition, he was dissatisfied with the visual results of his experiment, so that he returned to black and white film and only turned a feature film in color again with Passion (1969). Oh, these women was also Bergman's last pure comedy, a subject he had taken on with varying degrees of success in the 1950s ( Lesson in Love , Women's Dreams , The Smile of a Summer Night ) and 1960 with The Devil's Eye .
criticism
The Swedish criticism unanimously rejected these women . Svenska Dagbladet called the film “pretentious” and even if it wasn't Bergman's worst or least interesting work, it was still his “least moving”. Dagens Nyheter described him as humorless and cold, Stockholms-Tidningen as disappointing and boring.
In Germany, Der Spiegel rated these women as “heavy-footed comedy” and “strained grotesque”. Die Zeit saw “colorful clothes” in the film, which with “lame personalities” and “tired antics” only create boredom and make the viewer wistfully think back to The Smile of a Summer Night . In retrospect, the lexicon of international films spoke of a mocking farce that was exhausted “in bland extravagance and frivolity” and seemed like an “unfinished sketch”.
Web links
- All These Women in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Oh, those women in the Svensk Filmdatabas of the Swedish Film Institute
- Oh, those women in the online film database
- Oh, these women on Kino.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Oh, these women on the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation , accessed on October 12, 2012.
- ↑ a b Oh, these women in the lexicon of international film .
- ↑ Jerry Vermilye: Ingmar Bergman: His Life and Films, McFarland & Co. 2006, p. 120.
- ^ Hauke Lange-Fuchs: Ingmar Bergman: His films - his life, Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-02622-5 , p. 178.
- ^ Ingmar Bergman: Bilder, Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-462-02133-8 , p. 271.
- ↑ Quoted after the entry of the film on the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation.
- ↑ Oh, these women in Der Spiegel No. 40/1964 of September 30, 1964, accessed on October 12, 2012.
- ↑ Oh these women in Die Zeit No. 35 of August 28, 1964.