Sunday 17 April 2005, 15.00

Alf Sjöberg, 1951 Sweden, 90'

August Strindberg's 1888 play Miss Julie is (with The Dance of Death) his realist masterpiece. Sjöberg's great film of the play in many ways is more like Strindberg's symbolist/expressionist plays such as The Ghost Sonata. The play is set entirely in the kitchen of a count's manor house and is heavy in monologues. The film gloriously opens up the setting and replaces the monologues with flashbacks. The screenplay could serve as a textbook for exteriorising a powerful work for stage and making it fluid and completely cinematic.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£3, booking recommended

    

This event is related to the August Strindberg: Painter, Photographer, Writer exhibition