![]() Maybe I haven’t thought this through…Jonno, these films are fantastic, they’re perfect. “We don’t always have time to think, we just live! Of course a filmmaker can depict what you call quirkiness, but it is still just canned. In a chapter called “Videomania” the two ladies watch films on Jonno’s video player together, Truffaut, Bergman, Visconti, Renoir, Wilder, Fassbinder, etc. There are empty spaces that must be respected – those often long periods when a person can’t see the pictures or find the words and needs to be left alone.” “They never asked, ‘Were you able to work today?’ Maybe they had, twenty or thirty years earlier, but they’d gradually learned not to. Here are two female artists going about their creative work separately, each having some good productive days and other days not so worthwhile. ‘Fair Play’ is ultimately a love story between these two women, told in short understated vignettes.įrom the Wikipedia entry for Tove Jansson, ‘Fair Play’ seems quite autobiographical and perhaps based on her long-term friendship with Tuulikki Pietila. They argue and annoy each other frequently, yet there is a quiet center between them that enhances both of their lives. They each live separately on opposite ends of an apartment building on an island off the southern coast of Finland. Mari is a writer, and Jonno is an artist. ‘Fair Play’ is about the friendship between two middle-aged women, Mari and Jonno. ![]() Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best. ‘Fair Play’ by Tove Jansson (1982) – 100 pages ![]()
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