Sweden’s Ingmar Bergman and actress Harriet Andersson helped each other to become international celebrities with Sommaren med Monika, which Per Anders Fogelström and Bergman adapted from the former’s novel about a couple in their late teens, Harry and Monika, who abandon their families and stockroom jobs and take off to live and love together on […]
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Ingmar Bergman considered The Serpent’s Egg, which he wrote and directed, to be a horror film; he was right. Like his earlier English-language film, The Touch (1971), it is about a Jewish American—in this case, Abel Rosenberg, a jobless trapeze acrobat stranded in inflationary, impoverished Berlin in the 1920s as a result of the economic […]
The late Stan Brakhage slandered Ingmar Bergman by saying that the Swedish filmmaker made his films to elicit approval from U.S. art-house audiences and critics. Envious, the U.S. filmmaker expanded this lie by adding that Bergman admitted this publicly. Of course, Bergman never did such a thing or said such a thing; those of the […]
Pared down from a Swedish television mini-series that ran five hours, his Ansikte mot ansikte, at least in the 136-minute theatrical release, is not one of writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s coherent works. It lurches and sputters, at times almost seeming a vehicle for its Norwegian star, Liv Ullmann, Bergman’s partner at the time. Indeed, it is […]
Ingmar Bergman’s short film about her begins with a photograph of his mother, Karin Åkerblom Bergman, taken for a passport only days before her death. The old woman, a former nurse, is beautiful—as beautiful as Bergman’s love for her can imagine her. We all know all about her, because we have seen her history, beginning […]
Dennis Grunes 