[…] Lindblom made her debut as a film director with Summer Paradise (Paradistorg), a film version of Ulla Isaksson’s novel of the same name. Isaksson and Lindblom co-wrote the screenplay, which centres on an impressive summerhouse in the Stockholm archipelago. Every summer the various generations of the Wik family gather at the house, where the matriarchal doctor Katha – played by Birgitta Valberg, who won a Guldbagge award for the role – is the undisputed hub of the family. However, exasperations and disdain are bubbling under the surface of this Swedish idyll, and Bergmanesque elements are clearly discernible in the dialogues that resolve these issues. In one central scene a bitter quarrel breaks out around the dangers facing children in welfare Sweden as a result of women’s liberation and the desire for self-realisation.
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