'Frånskild' rather boldly casts 50 year-old stage veteran Inga Tidblad in a rare screen leading role as Gertrud Holmgren, a newly divorced woman venturing uncertainly out into life alone after 20 years of marriage. Her ex-husband (Holger Löwenadler) already has a high-achieving new woman in his life, played by the spectacular-looking Irma Christenson; while Gertrud's daughter (Eva Henning) remains very much Daddy's girl.
Gertrud new landlady (Hjördis Petterson) offers friendship and sympathy, and also has a handsome young son played by Alf Kjellin who offers rather more. Unfortunately he also has an annoying high-maintenance girlfriend played by Doris Svedlund whose presence presents an insuperable obstacle to Gertrud's prospect of a future with him.
Only a Scandinavian Women's picture could end on an upbeat note with a line like "I have learned to love my loneliness".
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