A “true” adventure recounting Norwegian Jan Baalsrud’s escape from German captors during World War II, Arne Skouen’s Ni Liv is beautifully framed by shots in a Swedish hospital corridor. The opening one shows Baalsrud’s assisted entry following an almost unimaginable ordeal during which he nearly froze to death. The closing shot shows Baalsrud, assisted by […]
Daily Archives: February 19, 2012
Greenwich Village bookseller Jean Newton on an impulse convinces a stranger, quixotic neighbor David Grant, to share with her for good luck a sweepstakes ticket; he extracts her promise, as a condition, that she go on a Platonic “honeymoon” with him, should they win anything, before she settles down by marrying insurance salesman Freddy Harper. […]
Dennis Grunes 