The Crown Jewels
Directed by Ella Lemhagen
Written by Ella Lemhagen and Carina Dahl
Sweden, 2011
Fragancia (Alicia Vikander) walks into her interrogation. As she sits in silence, a detective inquires, “Tell me what happened. You went up to Mr. Persson’s house at midnight to see Richard Persson. Why?”
Fragancia answers, “If I’m going to tell you, I want you to believe me.”
Her testimony also serves as the plot to Ella Lemhagen’s The Crown Jewels, and as Fragancia intimates, the story is fairly hard to believe.
The film starts off with the shooting of Richard Persson (Bill Skarsgård from Simon and the Oaks), Fragancia’s childhood acquaintance. Because she was at the scene of the crime, she’s arrested, and at her interrogation, she reveals her tempestuous childhood in order to vindicate herself of any wrongdoing.
When we are exposed to Fragancia’s childhood, the film becomes an examination of gender roles,...
Directed by Ella Lemhagen
Written by Ella Lemhagen and Carina Dahl
Sweden, 2011
Fragancia (Alicia Vikander) walks into her interrogation. As she sits in silence, a detective inquires, “Tell me what happened. You went up to Mr. Persson’s house at midnight to see Richard Persson. Why?”
Fragancia answers, “If I’m going to tell you, I want you to believe me.”
Her testimony also serves as the plot to Ella Lemhagen’s The Crown Jewels, and as Fragancia intimates, the story is fairly hard to believe.
The film starts off with the shooting of Richard Persson (Bill Skarsgård from Simon and the Oaks), Fragancia’s childhood acquaintance. Because she was at the scene of the crime, she’s arrested, and at her interrogation, she reveals her tempestuous childhood in order to vindicate herself of any wrongdoing.
When we are exposed to Fragancia’s childhood, the film becomes an examination of gender roles,...
- 5/17/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
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