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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: Dutch ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Young Nelly lives a quiet life with her foster mother until her real mother makes an appearance. Attracted by the fancy dresses and daring adult life in Stockholm offered by her real mother, Nelly leaves the small town and discovers the darker sides of human nature... ...Crisis ( Kris )
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"A Bona Fide Fiasco" - this was Bergman's own assessment of the reception to his debut as a film director.
To be honest there is not a huge amount to see here which will interest lovers of Bergman's work - it's quite clumsy in places and the acting and script are forgettable - but what I did enjoy were glimpses of Sweden of another era, immediately post war - the plot concerns a girl torn between country life and city life who has an affair with a selfish artist.
As Philip Strick comments in the notes included with this DVD release, many of Bergman's favourite themes are outlined or glimpsed here in his very first project. Mother/daughter tension, unhappy love affairs and wistful summer evenings.
Inga Landgre, in the lead role aged 18, would play the Knight's wife in 'The Seventh Seal' ten years later.
The Tartan DVD picture quality is sharp, although the sound is (understandably) not quite perfect. Minimal extras - film notes and trailers for other Tartan Bergman releases.
To be honest there is not a huge amount to see here which will interest lovers of Bergman's work - it's quite clumsy in places and the acting and script are forgettable - but what I did enjoy were glimpses of Sweden of another era, immediately post war - the plot concerns a girl torn between country life and city life who has an affair with a selfish artist.
As Philip Strick comments in the notes included with this DVD release, many of Bergman's favourite themes are outlined or glimpsed here in his very first project. Mother/daughter tension, unhappy love affairs and wistful summer evenings.
Inga Landgre, in the lead role aged 18, would play the Knight's wife in 'The Seventh Seal' ten years later.
The Tartan DVD picture quality is sharp, although the sound is (understandably) not quite perfect. Minimal extras - film notes and trailers for other Tartan Bergman releases.
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Nearly no trace of Bergman
4 Sep 2008
"Crisis" was Bergman's directorial debute. He also wrote the screenplay, adapting it from a play. In his memoir, The Magic Lantern, he writes with great humor about how the making of the film was one disaster after another: interminable rain, angry actors who had little if any faith in their young director, budget overruns, and needlessly expensive sets.
The plot is formulaic: smalltown innocent girl is lured to the big city, gets burned, returned wiser to smalltown. The unique twist for a film of this vintage is that the scoundrel of the piece beds a mother and daughter--an imbroglio that hollywood would never have ventured to put on the screen in 1946.
For the most part, the acting is lackluster. Inga Landgre is Nelly, the smalltown girl. She appears a few years later in Bergman's "Seventh Seal" as Karin, knight Antonious Blok's wife. The scoundrel, Jack, is played by Stig Olin, who also takes the lead in Bergman's later "To Joy." He brings a certain gusto to his role as a sweet-talking nihilist. The other performances--Nelly's birth mother, her foster mother, and her long-suffering straightman admirer--are unmemorable. The musical score, overwrought and melodramatic, makes a mediocre movie worse.
In all this mess there is one obvious Bergmanism. Ingeborg, Nelly's foster mother and professional saint (played by Dagny Lind) is traveling in a Pullman sleeper shortly after being diagnosed with a terminal illness. She's in a bottom berth, and the camera shot of her is reminiscent of a body in a coffin. suddenly she awakes, pushes franticaly at the ceiling of her berth, and screams over and over "Help me! I don't want to die!" It's an effective scene, and it's pure Bergman.
Bergman fans will want to watch "Crisis" because it's Bergman's first. But it has little to draw anyone else.
The plot is formulaic: smalltown innocent girl is lured to the big city, gets burned, returned wiser to smalltown. The unique twist for a film of this vintage is that the scoundrel of the piece beds a mother and daughter--an imbroglio that hollywood would never have ventured to put on the screen in 1946.
For the most part, the acting is lackluster. Inga Landgre is Nelly, the smalltown girl. She appears a few years later in Bergman's "Seventh Seal" as Karin, knight Antonious Blok's wife. The scoundrel, Jack, is played by Stig Olin, who also takes the lead in Bergman's later "To Joy." He brings a certain gusto to his role as a sweet-talking nihilist. The other performances--Nelly's birth mother, her foster mother, and her long-suffering straightman admirer--are unmemorable. The musical score, overwrought and melodramatic, makes a mediocre movie worse.
In all this mess there is one obvious Bergmanism. Ingeborg, Nelly's foster mother and professional saint (played by Dagny Lind) is traveling in a Pullman sleeper shortly after being diagnosed with a terminal illness. She's in a bottom berth, and the camera shot of her is reminiscent of a body in a coffin. suddenly she awakes, pushes franticaly at the ceiling of her berth, and screams over and over "Help me! I don't want to die!" It's an effective scene, and it's pure Bergman.
Bergman fans will want to watch "Crisis" because it's Bergman's first. But it has little to draw anyone else.
Crisis
14 Sep 2007
This is a melodrama. It has good moments though. Slight psychological overtones and an early "sex" scene (should be too revealing in 1946) among others. Worth watching.
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