A suitable case for further study: Bodil Ipsen, a Danish movie star in light romantic roles (from 1913) who became a director in the forties, specializing in dark melodramas and noir. She made ten films in ten years, winning the Bodil Award several times. Well, it was named for her, after all.Half of Ipsen's films are co-directed with Lau Loritzen Jr., a fellow actor and studio boss, but a good one she helmed solo is Murder Melody, whose hectic 74 mins packs in a policier, a backstage drama, a love triangle and a dose of the uncanny, with a touch of the city-under-siege narrative at play also. The last genre is really a consequence of the film's multiplicity of characters, the script opting to throw in a new speaking part every few seconds in case we get bored looking at the people we've already got. The expanding web of subplots seems...
- 2/4/2016
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
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