LAZY LENA
(Monark Films) G Cert. | HAVE no reason to doubt that Lazy Lena could be uproariously funny to a Swede, but I reach that conclusion widdershins, as it were, It’s billed as a comedy, there is an unconscionable amount of Swedish dialogue in it, and I didn’t find it funny. Perhaps that is being too harsh.. There were odd moments when there was a little simple clowning, enough to crack a faint smile -though one of the best of these was a parody on Rostand. But, to be quite blunt, this kind of comedy (where at least 75 per-cent of the fun resides in the dialogue) is not suitable for export with sub-titles only. Well-dubbed dialogue should be a minimum requirement. ‘
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 947, 4 October 1957, Page 26
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122LAZY LENA New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 947, 4 October 1957, Page 26
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