Charting a woman’s dour domestic life as a mother in early 20th century Sweden, and whose artistic awakening comes in the form of a camera, Troell’s late-career triumph is a layered, exquisite delight.
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Here Is Your Life (1966)
Jan Troell’s naturalistic if poetic debut feature may have been well-regarded in Swedish cinema, but it is difficult to be absorbed by a work that is too meandering and elliptical for its own good.
Emigrants, The (1971)
A ‘historical epic’ about a Swedish family emigrating to the States, told unhurriedly in the most intimate and natural of ways.
