Film explores child’s view
By Sean Axmaker
Of the Emerald
Vibeke Lokkeberg’s “Kamilla” is an emo
tionally powerful look at the disintegration of a
marriage as seen through the eyes of the 7-year
old daughter.
The setting is Bergen, a small coastal town in
Norway, just after World War II. Kamilla’s father
runs a shoe repair shop and her mother (played by
writer-director Lokkeberg) a laundry. As the film
begins we become aware of the problems in the
marriage, but the cleft that develops is in the form
of the sexy blonde Siri, whom father has hired to
run the counter in front.
Across the street from the family lives
Kamilla’s best friend Svein, whose father has run
out on the family. His mother attempts to hold the
family together despite interference from self
righteous neighbors and the state welfare board.
Caught in between these battles are Kamilla
and Svein, innocent young children who observe
the ensuing anarchy but are unable to understand
why it is occuring. In one of the film’s most
powerful moments the children try to create their
own “ideal” love that becomes the only pure
relationship in the story.
Nina Knapskog is perfect as Kamilla; her
range of emotion is extraordinary for a child her
age. She captures the pain and anger of a helpless
child while still preserving the essential in
nocence and curiosity that makes Kamilla come
alive. Even when her father leaves the family and
moves into the shop with mistress Siri, Kamilla
attempts to console herself with her picture book
and her friendship with Svein.
Lokkeberg’s vision is a miserable, depressing
one. The numerous point-of-view shots let us
view the world from Kamilla’s helpless position,
a small girl in a towering world. The shame the
family lives under for allegedly dealing with the
Nazis during the war, the English lessons the
father undergoes (so he can become a lumberjack
Photo courtesy New Line Cinema
in Canada), and the American sailors that wander
in and out of the plot are all carefully calculated
elements that seem to reinforce the corruption of
society and family that World War II has brought
on.
The beauty of the town and the visual splen
dor of the film are in sharp contrast to the
hopelessness of life. The only hope offered is in
innocent Kamilla, who futilely attempts to recon
cile her parents’ marriage. Beautiful and sad,
“Kamilla” is a powerful film with the sharpest
portrayal of a child’s attempts to cope with a
marital breakup I’ve ever seen.
Norwegian with English subtitles.
Starts Friday at Cinema 7.
Folk duo to play Eugene
Jim Ringer and Mary Mc
Caslin, folk and country
western singers, will return to
Eugene for a Friday concert at
the W.O.W. Hall.
McCaslin sings a curious
blend of cowgirl laments and
Motown pop hits from the
1960s, while Ringer rumbles
out ballads of “drinking, dash
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the San Bernardino, Calif, cou
ple have perfected an appealing
close-harmony style of singing,
as evidenced on their album,
“Bramble and the Rose,” of a
few years ago.
They have released a dozen
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including McCaslin’s “Prarie in
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