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ELVIRA MADIGAN. This elegiac pastorale, directed by Sweden's Bo Widerberg, based on the true story of a cavalry officer's hopeless love affair with a circus tightrope walker, is spare and elegant, with great sensitivity of texture, color and light...
...true to their nature, were only a fringe group by the time the main body of marchers reached the Pentagon. Down in the Parking Lot, away from the action, they were exorcizing the Pentagon, pointing their fingers at the building and chanting "Out Demons Out." It was an incredible circus with the hippies doing their thing, the politicos doing theirs, and, of course, the military doing theirs...
...MBTA and jerk through Boston's murky underground and past the swamps of Revere Beach. After 35 minutes and two changes you emerge at Wonderland Park, a sprawling, brawling circus that is one of about 50 greyhound race tracks in the country...
Elvira Madigan is an elegiac pastorale based on the true story of a Swedish cavalry officer (Thommy Berggren) who deserted his wife, children and career for a hopeless liaison with a circus tightrope walker (Pia Deger-mark). Abandoning their past, ignoring their inevitably tragic future, the two flee to Denmark to spend one delirious summer of happiness. Like stars that burn most brilliantly just before they are extinguished, the couple are renewed by simple pleasures-their bodies, the heady summer air, the wide riverbanks and the small, disciplined forests...
...would sooner or later run away from home on a summertime Tom Sawyer adventure. It was part of growing up, a way to gain experience and nothing to be alarmed about. Sometimes the boy would be gone for a week or so, but generally his plans to join the circus ended about nightfall, when his empty stomach and the animal sounds near his woodsy hideout quickly convinced him that daddy's razorstrop was not so bad after...