THE SURF
(Northern International) P HE SURF, which is being shown in New Zealand as The Isle of Love, is a Swedish film in which Ingrid Bergman appeared before she went to Hollywood Otherwise I’m sure we would never have seen it, which wouldn’t- have been a great hardship. It’s about a young man, forced into the church by a stern father. who finds when he meets an old love (Miss Bergman) that he can’t control his desires. Since he gives up the struggle while a great storm rages, there’s opportunity for a riot of symbol-ism-flaming trees, tossing waves, flashing lightning and goodness knows what else. Miss Bergman gives here and there a foretaste of the very beautiful woman she was to become) and some of the camera work is well done-bits like the fishing boats going out on a rising sea. But the exaggerated acting, particularly of the male lead, and the flickering light took me back to my childhood in the silent cinema, suggesting that this piece belongs to the, fairly early days of the Swedish sound film. Not surprisingly, then, it also has the merit of being thoroughly visual in its ap proach, so that speech seems hardly necessary.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 823, 6 May 1955, Page 19
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202THE SURF New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 823, 6 May 1955, Page 19
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