Swede Smell Of Success
According to Artforum: It’s become so customary for clickbait headlines to presumptuously refer to movies and filmmakers that the reader has “Probably Never Heard Of†that we tend to lose sight of what constitutes genuine rarity and undiscovered territory. To wit: I can’t say if you’ve heard of Hasse Ekman, subject of the retrospective “The Other Swede in the Room†which begins on September 9 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, but I do know that not a one of the ten films playing are available on domestic home video—I’ve only been able to watch a handful of them—and if you haven’t seen any of Ekman’s deft, fleetly paced, scaldingly emotional films, you are in for a surprise. Pictured is “The Banquet” (1948).
