European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes january 1981 Liv Ullmannn debut modern living As director by Andrew Malcolm new York times the elegantly dressed woman Knelt on the Stone floor amid considerable clutter and she flipped her Blond Ponytail out of the leaned on the Hospital bed and addressed the aged your husband has come to visit As she said to the woman in the youre going to have a Lovely time just like the old and thus in room 724 of an abandoned Hospital the camera rolled on scene 7 a in the directorial debut of Liv the having also turned she is one of four female directors and nine female writers to collaborate on a new the which wound up shooting i Toronto in is actually an anthology of nine Short stories running from 8 to 18 minutes in All were commissioned in recent years to provide inti mate insights into nine views of from the Awakening sexuality of youth to the kind of elderly shared caring of Ullman s silent where eyes and faces do the communicating and there in no verbal the segments were written by Ullmann Nancy who wrote the screenplay for snapshot Antonia the British author Penelope British playwright and critic Gael the american writer Germaine the Australia born author of the female eunuch Edna the Irish author Mai the swedish actress and and Joni the Canadian who will also act in her in addition to Ullmann and Annette the Canadian film will direct several Seg the million Canadian which has no government has 30 according to its product Barry Levinson and Renee these Are not angry feminists making a said who is making her first they Are women who have nor is it just a women its emotional admirable about real dealing with people and their theres a lot of i think its a terribly commercial by then Ullmann will have travelled several thousand More Miles for the United nations International Chil Drens emergency finished her new about her life and the people she has perhaps done another Broadway and be Well into a West Ger Man norwegian film co production called she will also be Over her nervousness at i didst want to do Ullman said in an interview Between its very and its very hard to do because in used to another language and different ver bal so the Crew and i each confuse each but Treyve been the Crew members said Ullmann definitely knew what she wanted done with her but was always open to Shes gorgeous to work said Charles who plays the aged husband who daily visits his a bedridden stroke the called consists mainly of Liffey deliberate preparations every Day to ready some food at Home and carry it to the Hospital to give to his wife along with and attention and Reading from the by at wits end by Erma Bombeck i dont know if i can put into words the condition of my House in but ill if Lawrence of Arabia and his Camel fell Down in the living room no one would find them unless one of them gave whats a Nice girl like me doing in a dump like this i asked my you we rent getting any younger and you he said if i could just buy something new it might motivate me to i Torget 1 i could move things a lot of people rearrange furniture to relieve the the kind of Loving care absent from Many ins Titu what i said for the viewer to share with him As he nourishes his feeds As he sees the Beauty in her he once fell in love this is the last stages of his not but he will be with her daily and stay alive As Long As she but probably not much Ullmann had five Days to film her segment in Toronto before making speeches for Unicof in West Germany and first came the husbands almost ritualistic preparations at including Joliffe first nude a another Section covered his laborious journey to the Hospital shot from tall building tops to make Joliffe Small and lost in a nameless but the crucial Section covered the actual visit with his played by Rita a local actress who agreed to remove her false Teeth to heighten the aged there were Light moments when Joliffe kept spilling spoonfuls of tepid beef Broth Down the neck of who is supposed to be paralysed and but there were serious moments of As the combined effects of the Bright lights and Ullmannn narration during the actual filming brought genuine tears to Tuckett music will replace the directors voice in the final Ullmann said Ever so softly As the camera began to action arrange the and the Napkin and dont her hands look cold and uncomfortable now the soup and the spoon youre Arent you and youre embarrassed you spilled it but the food nourishes her and one More but she Doest want it she always was now the Orange remember How she loved Orange hold her that wipe her now you face her and drink the rest re Mem she is very far away from your so this is your inside Toast to the now you Kneel and read to her from the Bible be cause the two of you used to read together and its very look at her Charles you re Mem its All Over but you and that a new York times Andrew Malcolm Liv Ullmann directs Rita As a patient Charles As her in not the plumbing in the bathroom he Cau i ushered him into the living room and said does this look like a different room he what did you do i saw this article in a Magazine that said if you made just two Little throw it would brighten up your entire i dont believe he i used a couple of cushions i had around the bought some remnants of Bright ribbon and made a Basket weave design out of the whole thing Cost Are you ready he nodded it Doest even look like the same he it i the ribbon Only came in Pink which didst do a thing for our Royal Blue i had it Cov and the chairs you had them covered too youre have those chairs covered they we rent the style of chairs youd put with Satin rib boned that like wearing a win Button on your original dior these Are he watch the i they May still be a Little actually  dry a Little Darker and will match the new carpet who would have thought two Little pillows could have made such a difference he said now that you mention i Cocking my head the pillows do look a Little Tacky in this elegant they look like something i made out of would it be All right with you if i bought two Little Ole pillows to brighten up this room c Field enterprises