Ingmar Bergman, portrayal of inner demons, 100 years later

Ingmar Bergman, one of the most eminent filmmakers of his generation whose melancholy work is often difficult to digest but celebrated, still captivates the public as much as he strips off his criticism.

Born in 1918 in Uppsala, north of Stockholm, Bergman made about sixty films between 1946 and 2003, including "Cries and Whispers" (1972), "Scenes from a Marriage" (1974). ), "Autumn Sonata" (1978) and his feature film "Fanny and Alexander" (1982).

He died 11 years ago at the age of 89 in his home in Faro, a small island in the Baltic Sea. limestone rocks of distinct form and shrubs, where his disturbing film "Persona" (1966) was put

Son of a Lutheran priest, Bergman remains to this day the most distinguished portrayer of torments, fantasies, madness and marital infidelity.

"The essence of our education was based Bergman wrote in his autobiography" The Magic Lantern "

Throughout his career, with his first film" Crisis "at the final" Saraband ", the Talented director, known for having relationships with his actresses, he filmed masterfully.

He abhorred death and painfully painted his themes by creating a tense metaphysical atmosphere where God was powerful but absent, leaving the characters alone in the world with a troubled awareness between cries. "

" Ingmar was largely inspired by his past experiences […] in a way, he remained in the first ten years of his life ", Explains to AFP Anna Bergman, former costume designer of Bergman

" Scandinavian exoticism "

His international breakthrough began in the 1950s with an audience seduced world it by "Scandinavian exoticism" with its barbaric language, its frank women, its wild landscape. He is often associated abroad with his dark, black-and-white, slow-paced, and tight-fired films, but that's only part of his truth, "Anna Bergman said.

She said that Swedes prefer to watch "Fanny and Alexander", which portrays the tragic life of a family through the eyes of two children.The film is shown every year at Christmas on Swedish television [19659005] The dark themes of the filmmaker do not always fit with the societal changes in his country

"Bergman's career coincides with the development of the Swedish welfare state … experiencing a political, social and economic boom exceptional in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. "Jan Holmberg, director of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation, told AFP:" We now have this director who reminds us that we can also be anxious, that we can divorce , or maintain difficult relationships with our p arents, that we are atheists and we do not want to hear about it, "he added.

Dubbed Oscars

Bergman repeatedly created symbolist compositions, first in black and white, and then in color.

"The Seventh Seal", "The Summer with Monika", "Scenes of a Wedding", "Autumn Sonata", "Cries and Whispers" and Alexander "are classic examples He has also written dozens of plays and adaptations by Molière, William Shakespeare, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and Swedish writer August Strindberg

. From 1963 to 1966, Bergman was the director from the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm, which this year has announced an exceptional program to celebrate its 100th anniversary.

A listener passionate about music who humbly claimed that he was not very talented in the music. art, Bergman united the stage and the cinema when he directed Mozart's comic opera "The Magic Flute" in 1975.

The LP LP of the opera remains in his pine house in Faro.

Described by Woody Allen as the "Best Director" "In the history of cinema, Bergman has brought back was an Oscar in the best foreign language film category for "The Virgin Spring" (1960), "Through a Darkly Glass" the following year and for "Fanny and Alexander" (1983). 1997, he beak Bergman himself had role models

"[Andrei] Tarkovsky is for me the greatest, the one who invented a new language, true to" He said that other filmmakers, among whom the Italian Federico Fellini, the Japanese Akira Kurosawa and the Spanish Luis Bunuel, "are sailing all over the world." Bergman has chosen Swedish actress Harriet Andersson and her Norwegian muse Liv Ullmann – which & ### 39, he called a "Stradivarius" – for his deepest characters.

He married five times and had nine children. NVG

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