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The Ox (Sven Nykvist, 1991)
The Ox (Sven Nykvist, 1991)
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Challenge: Movie Titles II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Date: May 18, 2008
Aperture: f5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/30
Date Uploaded: May 18, 2008

 Based on a true story, the bleak period piece Oxen was co-written and directed by Ingmar Bergman's longtime cinematographer Sven Nykvist. In the small village of Småland in the late 1860s, Helge Roos (Stellan Skarsgård) works as a farmer on an estate belonging to Svenning Gustafsson (Lennart Hjulström) and his wife (Liv Ullmann). Plagued by a terrible famine, Helge illegally kills one of the Gustaffson's last oxen so his own family can eat. He and his wife, Elfrida (Ewa Fröling), feel guilty about it, but the meat keeps them alive through the winter. When he tries to sell the hide in the spring, a clergyman (Max Von Sydow) finds out and encourages him to confess. The judge sentences Helge to a life of manual labor at the state prison for his crime. When he is finally pardoned and released after six years, he returns home to Elfrida to find out that she has been supporting the family by performing sexual services, which has resulted in the birth of another child.

Statistics
Place: 29 out of 246
Avg (all users): 6.2865
Avg (commenters): 7.8333
Avg (participants): 6.3385
Avg (non-participants): 6.2547
Views since voting: 1884
Views during voting: 277
Votes: 171
Comments: 10
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 06/01/2008 08:51:37 PM
Oh, I loved that movie! Now I know one person in the world who has seen it too. ;) Great lighting in this.
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 05/28/2008 08:40:59 AM
Wow. This was sure underrated. What a portrait!
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 05/28/2008 03:07:06 AM
Very impressed. (Photography reflecting cinematography).
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 05/28/2008 12:10:44 AM
Beautifully done - one of my top picks in this challenge. I don't have any nifty icons to award, though - just my thanks for doing good work.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/27/2008 11:11:42 PM
Wonderful. Probably a ten.
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 05/27/2008 10:48:27 PM
Great picture and it was right to make it bw, 9
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 05/24/2008 02:33:08 AM
This is wonderful. The processing is great.
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 05/23/2008 08:41:16 AM
Nice lighting and conversion!
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 05/23/2008 12:58:26 AM
It seems like I went back to a simpler time...also seems like that would hurt! :oP Great job!
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 05/21/2008 04:36:45 PM
I really like this. I think a tighter crop would do your overall score better though.
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