Visually incredible. Cold, stark. The acting’s incredible. I think I’ll be thinking about this film and Bergman’s choices for days. The main character, Tomas, is a small town pastor who’s a) ineffective as an advisor & spiritual leader & he knows it b) a whiny baby about his cold c) cruel to a woman, Marta, who loves him, giving her mixed signals, being needy then pushing her away — his disdain for her seems to me to be a disdain for tenderness,…
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The Seventh Seal 1957
I watched this film once when I was 19, on break between semesters at a friend's apartment where I was staying alone in a college town. Most days, I would wander around the emptied town for hours in the snow, ending up at the public library, where I would fill my backpack with films and cds and books and spend the rest of my days and nights devouring them. My memory of this film until I rewatched it was scant.…
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Through a Glass Darkly 1961
This film is beautiful and harrowing. It's visually stunning, shot on Fårö Island in black & white - there are lots of wide shots where we see expanses of rocky beach and sky and sea and our characters, small and sometimes feeble, sometimes joyful, like gulls, in the shot. The film portrays a family - a father, daughter, son, and the daughter's husband. Each person has their struggles; they all love each other and hurt each other, and the complexities of…
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