Another solid work by this overlooked Swedish Master. For thirty years now he has been producing world class films but remains unknown to American audiences.
Here we follow the fortunes of a lower class family with many (7) children, a proud mother with an artistic bent and a crude, unlettered, sometime violent father. Her refuge is photography which at the time this is set...early 20th century...is uncommon. JT builds a complete portrait, step by careful step, which satisfies in the same way a novel by Trollope does. These people seem real, have substance and their eventual fate matters to us.
It pleases me that he continues to produce work of this caliber.
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