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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[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!