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Sommaren med Monika – Time with Monika (1953) 
At this time: Two teenagers spend a summer without worries about the water, but the love breaks down in winter, to the harsh reality of Stockholm. Harriet Andersson played her first role for Bergman, there is a nudity scene with her, which called for censorship even in permissive Sweden. Ironically, it's exactly what the director has made known internationally: The film was distributed in the United States under the name of "Monica: The Story of a Bad Girl" – and scenes from an American nudist beach were added
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Today: Reflections, the sea, the skin:" The time with Monika "remains incredible sensual. And Monika can be interpreted as a modern woman: she leaves husband and child to lead an independent life. In this respect, the film has aged well.
Det sjunde inseglet – The Seventh Seal (1957) 
Then: A Crusader wants to defeat death in chess. But no one escapes the dark man. With this film legend, Bergman finally conquered world cinema
Voice: "One of the most beautiful films ever made." (Eric Rohmer)
Today: Death, chess, jugglers, plague – the scenes are so well known that moviegoers know them, even if they have not. never seen the movie. It's one of the most quoted and parodied movies, even in the Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle "Last Action Hero" that it comes before. Therefore, the original has long been considered exhausted. Some jobs now seem outdated. It is all the more surprising that the figure of death is fresh and ironic. He and the Chevalier du Chevalier give the film more ambiguity than we might have thought.
Smultronstället – Wild Strawberries (1957) 
Then The Second Part of the Year of Production 1957: An old teacher drives in car for his birthday at the end of the year. studies – and sets off to face life stations. The silent director Victor Sjöström, whom Bergman admired, played the lead role.
Voice: "Who can ever forget such images?" (Woody Allen)
Today: One of the most famous dreams of the history of cinema: The old man walks down a street, sees a clock without a pointer first , later, a coffin in which he is. These are images that remain truly memorable today, as well as the contrast, the youth embodied by Bibi Andersson, with their carefree enjoyment of wild strawberries, for example. Scenes in which the main character observes as an old man and interferes in the past, however, seem a little dusty. "Wild strawberries" is therefore more likely today to be considered with historical glasses.
Persona (1966) 
At this time: Bergman fired with two of his favorite actresses on his favorite island Farö: Bibi Andersson, with Having worked many times before, he played a nurse who flatters, heals and rages. Liv Ullmann, whose first film Bergman was, embodies the patient, a famous actress who is silent. But female figures start to overlap
Voice: "The best film ever made." (Susan Sontag)
Today: Very psychologically, very symbolic, definitely in the memory. The first surprise: "Persona" starts with an experimental movie sequence, pieces of dandruff, a slaughtered sheep, even an erect penis occurs. The second surprise: many close-ups and long camera shots seem downright modern. And the third: There is a very erotic story, only words, but the most effective. "Persona" is alive!
Viskningar och rop – Screams and Whispers (1972) 
At this time: In the early 1970s, Bergman was in crisis: he had less noticeable films filmed, and the separation from his partner Liv Ullmann has proved difficult. On Farö, he wrote a letter to his most important actresses (Ullmann, Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin). It was a vision of three women whispering in a red room. The resulting sisters' story has brought it back to the international tapestry. Before he landed a worldwide success with "Scenes of a wedding."
Voice: "Unlike most movies.
Today: Red, Red, Red, The staged with coloring is extremely penetrating.It remains interesting the psychologically fine drawing of the three sisters, one of which is marked by the disease.Men, on the other hand, are real wooden pegs
Fanny and Alexander – Fanny and Alexander (1982) 
At that time: Between 1976 and 1982, Bergman lived in Germany where he was accused of tax evasion had fled.He turned his films there and in Norway.For "Fanny and Alexander", he returned to Sweden, the film was financed with a large sum of the Film Institute, which earned him the wrath of other directors, for which nothing was left: there is a theatrical version of three hours and a television version of e five-thirty
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Today: In fact, the film also has a character of Best of Bergman can be understood negatively. There is a lot of familiarity in the subjects. And yet, so affectionately and playful – the pillow fight, the uncle fart – he never staged. An ideal introductory film and a new proof that Bergman ages better than many think
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Date created: 14.07.2018, 20:03
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