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"Love knows no boundaries or at least that is the essence of this short film from the Netherlands that tells the story of a lonely building supervisor who starts a relationship with a computer program. While she might not be, her love is real. "

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Oh, no, I wanted you to like that there was a movie called "Fllicka" and that the character was Swedish and cute, and adored by a nice man. (Just ignore the part about her starving to death.)

Perdita :rolleyes:
 
And, when I was growing up, my grandmother would look in my room and inform me, "You room is like a Flicker's nest!" (Except she pronounced it FLICK-ah.)

When I ask her what a Flickahs's nest was like, she said, "Schtrublich!"

I decided to quit while I was behind. :rolleyes:
 
Atom films has some great stuff..

This was pretty damn good, I have to admit.

Idoru.
 
Another svenskaflicka item. The site (url below) has a 'dubious dictionary' of opera terms. This is one. - Perdita

LADY FROM SVEDEN:

A diva who is nobody's fool. So-called for a real Lady from Sveden, Birgit Nilsson, who (how shall I put this?) took shit from nobody. Surely you remember when La Nilsson protested that dark and darker Walkure production by showing up for the dress rehearsal wearing a winged miner's helmet? By extension, any no-bull diva is known as a Lady from Sveden. When some Assistant to an Assistant informed Marilyn Horne that the Met's new sets for "Carmen" would be built entirely of sound-absorbing carpet, the mezzo didn't scream. She didn't throw things. She just cooed "Ve ladies from Sveden don't like zis." And management trembled. When confronted with unreasonable demands from directors and conductors, another Lady From Sveden (Renata Tebaldi, to be specific) flashed her "dimples of iron" as she murmured "Please, is not for me, is for the public. They no want to see me like this." If a gold-lame costume doesn't flatter her coloring, a Lady from Sveden bellows "I'm not Sophie Tucker, goddammit" (Horne again, Met debut) or else she chops the offending garment in half (Beverly Sills, La Scala debut). And when a creepazoid General Manager attempts to give the tenor the final curtain call after "Gioconda" (imagine!),a Lady from Sveden (Renata Scotto, San Francisco, and on live TV, yet!) shrieks, "Siete gente di merda!" [You are people of excrement!]

So, to sum up, "I'm a Lady from Sveden" means approximately "Don't fuck with me, fellas—this ain't my first time at the sitzprobe!"

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