Ingmar Bergman, 89.
The Swedish director of Smiles Of A Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, and Wild Strawberries died today at his house on Faroe Island. His last film was Saraband.
Bergman’s films are usually described as great, depressing, or great and depressing. We are allowed to admit that Bergman’s work is gloomy. In a Swedish television interview in 2004, he himself said: “I don’t watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry … and miserable.”
I must confess I thought he’d been dead for years. As a penance I will watch Persona without subtitles.
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July 31st, 2007 at 06:25
Oh wow, Ingmar yet again foists even more gloom on us. I remember it was Noel Vera who suggested I watch “Persona” when I asked him which films originally featured astonishingly suffocating close-ups like in Michael Mann’s “The Insider”. Still haven’t seen it yet. Maybe Ingmar’s ghost will finally scare my ass to go look for it now.
July 31st, 2007 at 12:34
Saan kaya nakakabili ng Persona at Seventh Seal? Wala sa Q eh. Torrents na lang? Pero nakabili na ako ng Wild Strawberries, hindi ko pa lang nga napapanood.