Please give current address and surname (p. [And here, I want to dart off into A Winter Book because of the wonderful ‘Messages’ chapter, which consists of short extracts from letters received by Tove from fans. 31) There are biographical clues later on which confirm this: Mari’s father was a sculptor called Viktor, and her mother founded the Swedish branch of the Girl Guides she also receives fan mail. Do you know what I mean? Apparent quirkiness but with a point. You talk about things that don’t fit – they use such things, with a purpose, as an essential part of the whole.
Make no mistake: great directors know all about the irrational. Mari is soft hearted enough to be a little shocked at this, but Jonna’s argument applies to so much of Tove’s own work that it didn’t click that she is the Tooti character: Avoiding any attempt at sympathy, she gives out the number of a vet, and leaves it at that. So intent is she on a discussion about the superiority of watching films to socialising, that she barely registers the phone call she answers from a distressed friend whose cat has jumped out of a window in pursuit of a pigeon.
Jonna’s is the more forceful personality, the more acute judgement. 28), though they also run to Chaplin and westerns). They spend the daytime apart, working (on printmaking, illustration, painting, writing), and the evenings together watching films (‘Truffaut, Bergman, Visconti, Renoir, Wilder’ (p. Instead of Tove and Tooti, they are Jonna and Mari, living in a pair of nearby apartments in autumn and winter, on a small, isolated island in spring and summer, and travelling Europe and America between times. Coming to it after the childhood reminiscences of A Winter Book, it was easy to interpret as lightly amended autobiography, with the names changed. It wasn’t until quite late on in Fair Play that I realised I had the characters the wrong way around.
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