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DEAR JOHN. Love is considerably more than sin-deep in this tour de force of erotic realism by Swedish Director Lars Magnus Lindgren. Jarl Kulle plays a sea captain, Christina Schollin the cafe waitress with whom he has a one-night affair that, oddly, ennobles them both...
Dear John is a tour de force of erotic realism by Director Lars Magnus Lindgren, 43. During a leisurely opening sequence, the film anchors itself in a bed occupied by a robust seafaring man and a young woman. The subsequent plot explains how they got there, using a free flashback technique that skips from his mind to hers, pausing at a remembered word or gesture, occasionally repeating a significant moment several times over...
...child born out of wedlock, remembers him only as a drunken lout who was rude to her on another visit two years earlier. Warily she declines his first invitation, and he smugly vows he'll have her; on the second evening he does. In the process, Director Lindgren sketches a tender, funny and lusty nature study of a love match about to bloom, slowly taking root in an attraction that turns out to be considerably more than sin-deep...
...impromptu airplane excursion to the Copenhagen zoo, then home and bed, but not before the would-be seducer confides: "Every time you reach a port, you think you'll find what you want. By the time you leave a place, you're sick of it." Lindgren's camera dotes on closeups, catching every glimmer of doubt, every stab of loneliness, until the whole film tingles with a heady sense of discovery. Finally, it sees through the girl's eyes that the hot-blooded mariner is actually a gentle, restless wanderer, then through his eyes that...
Morally and structurally free-spirited, the film unequivocally puts the cart before the horse in showing that sex can precede love. Director Lindgren bends a few other rules too. Having analyzed to perfection the urgent biochemistry between a man on the make and a girl who probably won't say no, he follows it with a session of post-lovemaking banter that seems about as explicit as the law allows, at least for the moment...