Blixen was in her early sixties when she met Bjørnvig, who was almost thirty. When she first meets Bjørnvig (Conrad Ardelius), she stalks around him like a hunter circling prey, and there are even times when she seems like a witch casting a spell (she refers to herself as a witch quite often).īlixen manages to win Bjørnvig away from his wife and family and sets him up at her estate at Rungstedlund, where she swears him to a pact of eternal friendship. As embodied by Dee Pelletier, Blixen is a woman who lives at the highest pitch of emotion at all times.
Unsurprisingly, then, she makes for a dynamic central character in Danish playwright Thor Bjørn Krebs’s The Baroness, about the older Blixen in Denmark and her enchantment of a younger poet named Thorkild Bjørnvig.
Karen Blixen, who published her books Out of Africa and Seven Gothic Tales under the pen name Isak Dinesen, was an extremely intense woman with a flair for dramatic gestures. Light and dark: Conrad Ardelius and Dee Pelletier in "The Baroness" Ellinor DiLorenzo
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