Word: lindblom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Summer Paradise. As four generations of a Swedish family gather for a holiday, Director Gunnel Lindblom probes the forces that threaten the family as an institution...
...Directed by Gunnel Lindblom Written by Ulla Isaksson and Gunnel Lindblom...
This description of the film's story plays it false, makes it seem somehow a schematic representation of a textbook family, when in fact the people of Paradise are carefully particularized. The film is the first time that Gunnel Lindblom, an actress in several Ingmar Bergman movies, has directed (Bergman has the producer's credit). Her touch is usually delicate. Even the unhappy ending is understated, though there is a hint of further tragedy to come. There will be more to this family's life, and not all, of it a misery, before we write finis either...
...million out of 211 million. But last year, according to Government estimates, 800,000 to 1.5 million slipped back into poverty because of the combination of recession and inflation. Though the slippage is doubtless temporary, it has led to great disillusionment among those left behind. Political Scientist Charles Lindblom of Yale asserts that capitalism in the past has depended on women, blacks and other groups to accept unthinkingly a disadvantaged role and a meager share of the system's rewards. Now they are pressing for full equality and, says Lindblom, "it's really touch and go" whether the system...