Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Swedish movie time


(Young Ingrid Bergman)

I just finished watching "Kvinnas ansikte, En" or in English, "A Woman's Face." It is the 1938 release and one of Ingrid Bergman's first films. She plays a woman who's face and ego have been corrupted by a fire when she was younger. She is given a second chance when she has plastic surgery and meets a family who nutures her back to being a morally balanced lady.

The movie is quite good and it reunites Ingrid with Gustof Moleander, who worked with her when she was a young girl at acting school.

The movie was remade in America in 1941, starring Joan Crawford. The plot was changed a bit due to the change in locale.

I enjoyed the flick and I would say the highlight, other than seeing a rarely talked about Ingrid Bergman film, would be that the "the end" or "fin" on the last frames of the movie say "slut" which is Swedish for "finish."

I started laughing hysterically because it's not that often that you get to finish a quality film with the word "slut," at least not in English. Granted it wasn't a film in English, only subtitled, but until I learn Swedish, it will be in English to me.

So this is the slut of my blog today.
Slut.