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.