Hustruern—Ti ar etter
Norway,
1985, 90 min
Shown in 1986
CREDITS
- dir
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Anja Breien
- prod
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Bente Erichsen
- scr
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Anja Brein, Knut Saldbakken
- cam
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Erling Thurmann-Andersen
- cast
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Froydis Armand, Katja Medboe, Anne Marie Ottersen, Henrik Scheele, Per Frisch
- source
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Norsk Film, Oslo
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COMMENTS
Anja Breien in person.
OTHER
If Wives was, subtly, about the way living with a man changes a woman’s personality, Wives—Ten Years After is more so. Now approaching 40, the same friends meet again and their reunion has the same strange effect: a metamorphosis begins. Once again, they take off, even though this time it is only two days before Christmas; “Merry Christmas,” one wife writes to her mate, “your dinner’s in the freezer.” More glorious adventures are in store for our heroines, but this Wives also gets under their skin, focusing on their dreams and fantasies, their frank feelings about the husbands they’ve got and the ones they might have wanted, thoughts on the children they’ve accumulated over ten years’ time. It is a deeper kind of film, and richer. Anja Breien says she plans to meet her tireless threesome ten years hence, “but first the wives must age a little.”
—Judy Bloch
FACTOID #80
Irving ’Bud’ Levin, owner of San Francisco’s Metro Theatre, founded the SFIFF in 1957. However, Levin credited the idea for creating the Festival to the Italian consul general at the time, Pierluigi Alvera, who became one of its staunchest supporters.
