And to take the fall and to take the feeling

[sovay]

My health appears to have collapsed for the new year, which I furiously resent, but I learned tonight that Norway's first film directed by a woman was also its first film noir: Edith Carlmar's Death Is a Caress (Døden er et kjærtegn, 1949). I very definitely want to watch that.

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[gwynnega]

I'm sorry you're ill! I'd really like to see that movie too.

[sovay]

I'm sorry you're ill!

Thank you. I really wish I were not!

I'd really like to see that movie too.

It seems to play at festivals, film noir festivals included; I'm trying to find out if a legal and U.S.-playable DVD exists. Kino, this is exactly the sort of thing you're supposed to get on!

[edit] Carlmar seems to have directed multiple noirs! Clearly I need to know a lot more about non-Anglophone noir than I do.

[yhlee]

Oh man, feel better soonest. *support support*

[sovay]

Oh man, feel better soonest.

Thank you.

*hugs*

[lemon_badgeress]

But that is the opposite of what I wanted for you. :(

I hope you're able to find the movie!

[sovay]

But that is the opposite of what I wanted for you.

I don't hold you responsible! The wish itself is still valid.

I hope you're able to find the movie!

Thank you! I found what looked like a YouTube rip, but of questionable runtime and without subtitles. My Norwegian isn't that good (read: almost nonexistent) and I'm pretty sure they weren't supposed to be speaking that fast.

[asakiyume]

Being sick is never fun, but in winter it always feels extra ominous. I hope Spatch is healthy enough to bring you hot soup in bed (if it's an illness amenable to hot soup), and that you can rest and heal.

And that's another that I like the sound of just from the title!

[sovay]

I hope Spatch is healthy enough to bring you hot soup in bed (if it's an illness amenable to hot soup), and that you can rest and heal.

Thank you. We shared a bagel with cream cheese and lox before he left for work, and shared the lox with the little cats, and that was good.

And that's another that I like the sound of just from the title!

It's a terrific title! For pure pulp value, it's right up there with Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948).

[handful_ofdust]

Carlmar sounds fascinating! And ugh, damnit, re your health.

[sovay]

Carlmar sounds fascinating!

I'd never heard of her! It looks like Swedish noirs of the same vintage exist, too, like Hasse Ekman's Girl with Hyacinths (Flicka och hyacinter, 1950). Everything I had previously known about Scandinavian noir was neo-noir, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö's Martin Beck novels, Henning Mankell's Wallander, Erik Skjoldbjærg's Insomnia (1997); I'm really interested to see what the first generation looked like. I just hope I can actually get my hands on any of it.

And ugh, damnit, re your health.

Thanks. I have some doctor's appointments on the other side of this snowstorm!

[umadoshi]

My health appears to have collapsed for the new year

Aaargh. ;_; I hope you start feeling better quickly!

[sovay]

Aaargh. ;_; I hope you start feeling better quickly!

Thank you. I have Drs. Autolycus and Hestia looking after me; they have provably therapeutic purrs.