THE BACHELOR BROTHERS
(Monarkfilm A.B. Productions) G Cert. HARM is always difficult to resist when it’s a quality of the lives of simple people, and though at first I suspected what looked like a too-rustic simplicity in the three brothers Osterman, I loved them as old friends before their 90 minutes were up. "In the great tradition of One Summer of Happiness," this film is being described, and it’s true it is Swedish and has a similar agreeable, photogenic setting and a not dissimilar score; but here the puritans don’t matter so much, and are fairly easily outmanoeuvred anyway, and so the story is for the most part happy and goodhumoured. Middle-aged or older, the Osterman brothers lived 40-odd years ago on a rural island near Stockholm. Well provided for by legacy and very careful about what they spent, they neglected their farm and only stirred themselves to go fishing, which they loved. But they wanted a housekeeper to make life even easier, and the story tells what happened when they got one-one of those strong-willed) but good-humoured women who know what’s good for other people and see that they get it whether they want it or not. The names of Adolf Jahar, Artur Rolen and John Elfstrom ate all new to me, but they’re a. most engaging trio I would like to meet again; and Emy Hagman makes a vividly real housekeeper. Besides these four there are some interesting and well-realised neighbours, including a female relative who looks
like the original battleaxe, a young couple who would get married if the puritans would let them (he’s illegitimate), and a policeman with a past which tends to get in the way of his zeal for law enforcement. For all of them that big-hearted housekeeper is able to do something. The film, which makes the most of its poetic setting of hills and sea, is very easy on the eye. It was directed by Ivar Johanssen. Even. if you don’t as a general rule go to Continental films, this, I’m pretty sure, is one you'll enjoy-more, perhaps, than those who do.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 942, 30 August 1957, Page 26
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350THE BACHELOR BROTHERS New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 942, 30 August 1957, Page 26
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