The film "Ung frue forsvunnet" by acclaimed female Norwegian film maker Edith Calmar starts off this story in 1949 with a husband come home from a mountain trip, finding his young wife for two years, being traceless missing. She's been gone for days, and the police is immediately contacted. A couple living on boat finds the woman's hat floating, and it seem she's dead either by being killed or falling into the river.
The manuscript is quite well done, and the story unfolds as the husband tells about his life with his wife, from meeting her casually. There's a secret she's never told him, because he didn't want to hear it. This secret obviously is the reason for her disappearance.
In many aspects I like seeing how Norway was back then. So many things have changed, and still so many things are the same. Edith Calmar has been very acclaimed as both female actor and director. After acting in only two films, she started directing, and this is her third film after the sensational debut "Døden er et kjærtegn". She actually has a cameo as a drugstore customer in this film.
--- possible spoiler ahead--- Whitout telling too much this is a film about drug addicts in the 40'ies. The story is good, but I can't help in todays standards feeling the story is too theatrically acted. of course the actors are theater actors, but still I fell I really don't believe in their problems.
Calmar is heavily influenced by the foregoing film of Hitchcock. She deals mainly with crime stories. So this film appears to be. Though the story is rather a kick to the upper parts of society, expecting people to be more than they really are.
It's strange to see young Astri Jacobsen, Wenche Foss and Espen Schønberg, and the great Guri Stormoen, Lalla Carlsen, and the introducing of Adolf Bjerke and famous film critic (and also Cannes jury member) Arne Hestenes in this film. Calmar easily could get anyone to work for her already in her 3rd directing task.
I've seen this film twice. The first time I rated it 4 out of 10, the second time I voted it a 5. Maybe it is a 6 out of 10. it all comes down to the acting. Though having fine actors, I really don't think Calmar succeeded in getting the best out of them this time. This is not one of her bests films, though still it has some value.
The manuscript is quite well done, and the story unfolds as the husband tells about his life with his wife, from meeting her casually. There's a secret she's never told him, because he didn't want to hear it. This secret obviously is the reason for her disappearance.
In many aspects I like seeing how Norway was back then. So many things have changed, and still so many things are the same. Edith Calmar has been very acclaimed as both female actor and director. After acting in only two films, she started directing, and this is her third film after the sensational debut "Døden er et kjærtegn". She actually has a cameo as a drugstore customer in this film.
--- possible spoiler ahead--- Whitout telling too much this is a film about drug addicts in the 40'ies. The story is good, but I can't help in todays standards feeling the story is too theatrically acted. of course the actors are theater actors, but still I fell I really don't believe in their problems.
Calmar is heavily influenced by the foregoing film of Hitchcock. She deals mainly with crime stories. So this film appears to be. Though the story is rather a kick to the upper parts of society, expecting people to be more than they really are.
It's strange to see young Astri Jacobsen, Wenche Foss and Espen Schønberg, and the great Guri Stormoen, Lalla Carlsen, and the introducing of Adolf Bjerke and famous film critic (and also Cannes jury member) Arne Hestenes in this film. Calmar easily could get anyone to work for her already in her 3rd directing task.
I've seen this film twice. The first time I rated it 4 out of 10, the second time I voted it a 5. Maybe it is a 6 out of 10. it all comes down to the acting. Though having fine actors, I really don't think Calmar succeeded in getting the best out of them this time. This is not one of her bests films, though still it has some value.