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Budget. US$ 6 million [9] Box office. US$6.7 million [8] Fanny and Alexander ( Swedish: Fanny och Alexander) is a 1982 period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The plot focuses on two siblings and their large family in Uppsala, [a] Sweden during the first decade of the twentieth century. Following the death of the children's ...
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That Bergman was any sort of moralist was less than evident from the films that launched him to international fame. Indeed, the suggestion would have provoked stares of disbelief from his first American viewers. They thought he was a pornographer. 1953’s Summer with Monikawas first marketed in the United States as a miserably re-edited skin flick, ...
In his screenplay notes for the trilogy of films following The Virgin Spring (1960), Bergman wrote that “these three films deal with reduction. Through a Glass Darkly [1961]—conquered certainty. Winter Light [1963]—penetrated certainty. The Silence [1963]—God’s silence—the negative imprint.” The reduction and silence were metaphysical, but also qui...
The realization of this vision—so grim and uncompromising—went hand-in-hand with the decline of Bergman’s critical reputation. Andrew Sarris later wrote that Through a Glass Darkly was where he “got off the Bergman bandwagon,” and he was far from alone. In France, Bergman was supplanted by new heroes, such as Jean-Luc Godard, while in Sweden he met...
If Bergman’s artistic self-doubt looked obsolete in the 1960s, his religious preoccupations were seen as positively—to use Kael’s word—archaic. The mute girl’s only words in The Seventh Seal—Det är fullbordat, “it is finished”—are the last words of Jesus in the gospel of John. Traditionally, they are read as an expression of triumph, and her face, ...
To Luther, as to Christianity in general, there is an infinite gap between God the Creator—perfect, timeless, unchanging—and His mutable, transient creation. This gap is both ontological and moral: If God is the source of all being, without which nothing exists, He is also the moral order of the cosmos, absolutely good and absolutely just, who ther...
Persona appears at first glance to be the story of two women. The actress Elizabeth Vogler (Liv Ullmann) has fallen silent during a performance of Sophocles’s Electra and now refuses to speak; the nurse Alma (Bibi Andersson) is assigned to care for her. The first half of the filmseems like a realistic narrative, throughout which Elizabeth and Alma ...
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Feb 13, 2016 · But when patriarch Oskar dies, mother Emilie (Ewa Frolling) rashly decides to remarry the cold Bishop Vergerus (Jan Malmsjo), and the Ekdahls’s existence (including Emilie, Alexander and younger sister Fanny) is transformed from one of warm colors to a stern, inflexible gray.
Sep 17, 2021 · A wife, a husband, and violently receding vows: these are the components of Ingmar Bergman’s sublime 1973 series Scenes From a Marriage, starring Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson.
If there is one person who's opinion is probably least informed on how to have successful relationships, it is Bergman. His very nihilistic view of relationships, how they fall apart, and the downsides of human selfishness seems to largely stem from his own inability to actually have them.
Bergman wrote the teleplay for Scenes From a Marriage over three months. He drew on his personal experiences, including his relationship with Ullmann; his unhappy, eventually dissolved marriages to Käbi Laretei and Gun Hagberg; and the marriage of his parents, Karin and Erik Bergman .
Scenes from a Marriage is arguably the most compelling, and possibly most revealing, of Ingmar Bergman's chamber pieces - intimate dramas with a small cast having a very focussed central theme.
