Here Is Your Life (1966)

[pro-bassoonist]

Here Is Your Life Blu-ray REVIEW





Wonderful film and restoration

The Other Swedish cinema -- the one that rejected the old norms/cliches Ingmar Bergman's films essentially established at home and abroad -- begins with these directors: the great Bo Widerberg, Jan Troell, Vilgot Sjöman, etc. They had the type of impact the likes of Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and the rest of the New Wave directors had in France (both rejected the generation of directors and what they represented before them).

If you take a closer look at Troell's directorial debut, Here Is Your Life, you will see that it really is quite similar to Truffaut's first film, The 400 Blows. Yes, it is very Swedish, but the path it follows isn't.

***

On a related note, I don't know what happened with the Bo Widerberg films Olive Films said they will bring to Blu-ray. In 2013 they announced that they were planning to release these films:

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=12022

Man on the Roof (Bo Widerberg, 1976)
Adalen 31 a.k.a. The Adalen Riots (Bo Widerberg, 1969)
Elvira Madigan (Bo Widerberg, 1967)
Raven's End (Bo Widerberg, 1963)

...but nothing has come out.

No one has mentioned anything about Widerberg's All Things Fair either. And Criterion have not indicated that they will be upgrading Sjöman's films. I would really like to upgrade these and get the Olive Films titles because two of these films, Adalen and Man on the Roof, have been very difficult to see. (I have never owned them).



Pro-B