Elvira Madigan (1967)
Directed by Bo Widerberg
Famous acrobat Elvira Madigan meets Sixten Sparre, a married Swedish officer with two children. They decide to elope, but since Sparre deserted the army, he's unemployable and the couple encounter various hardships.
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Mozart tinkles over the couple's love, but the music is not the shampoo-commercial jingle of Bo Widerberg's Elvira Madigan, far closer instead to Bresson and Schubert in Au Hassard Balthazar, another acknowledgement of the grave beauties and horrors of the world.
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