Supreme Court Attorney Carl Crone is chocked and disturbed when he understands that his pretty wife Inger no longer cares for him, their home and bourgeois lifestyle. She has joined the Women's Lib.
Valdemar Andersen
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The Bourgeois Fortress Breached Valdemar Andersen's Jalousiens Magt (The Power of Jealousy) remains a Molotov cocktail hurled at the stained-glass windows of Edwardian matrimony. From its opening tableau—Carl Crone adjusting his cravat before a gilt-framed mirror while wife Inger arranges chrysanthemums with robotic...
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Lau Lauritzen
Lau Lauritzen
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" The Bourgeois Fortress Breached Valdemar Andersen's Jalousiens Magt (The Power of Jealousy) remains a Molotov cocktail hurled at the stained-glass windows of Edwardian matrimony. From its opening tableau—Carl Crone adjusting his cravat before a gilt-framed mirror while wife Inger arranges chrysanthemums with robotic precision—the film constructs marriage as a performance of oppressive normalcy. Director August Blom (though uncredited in surviving prints) weaponizes domestic spaces: mahogany-p..."
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