Saturday 29 August 2009

Gifts of love



From the film "As It Is In Heaven" ... from the Lord's Prayer. Directed by Kay Pollak.
Daniel Deraus a famous conductor returns to his birthplace in Northern Sweden. During his return he gives gifts to a church choir, various members of the choir and one special gift to Gabriella ( Helen Sjoholm ).This gift was a song sung for a concert at the "Let the People Sing" competition in Innsbruk, Austria. It is a study of gifts given and received and how others respond to a gift given to another which allows joy and gladness to come. Gabriella receives a thrashing from her husband after a presentation in the local Hall. No prizes for guessing who he is from the sequence of the film shown.
Another character: Arne (Lennart Jähkel), who is so serious about the choir's success that he obsesses over tiny mistakes when what he doesn't realise is that he is making bigger mistakes himself; .... ouch.
Connie, Gabriella's husband places himself in Hell. He became a bully as a child, remains one through his life and then finds it impossible to recognise LOVE either in the gift offered to his wife, or in her love for him expressed even in her look towards him at the end of her song.

I have never lost who I was
I have only left it sleeping
Maybe I never had a choice
Just the will to stay alive

The film is a must see film.

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