Cries and Whispers (Swedish: Viskningar och rop) is a brilliant film from Ingmar Bergman, dealing with human suffering. As with the next film I have here included, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant,in Cries and Whispers women dominate and men are only introduced to reinforce the intensity of their lot. From the four characters [...]
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Cries And Whispers-1972
Posted in Swedish films, tagged 100 Best Films, emotional hurts, human condition, Ingmar Bergman, Martyr, pain and suffering, religion,, terminal case on October 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Seventh Seal-1956
Posted in Swedish films, tagged 100 Best Films, dance of death, Medieval play, moral dilemma, moral imperative, plague on June 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Seventh Seal (Swedish: Det sjunde inseglet) “All my films can be thought in black and white,…” so wrote Bergman in Images: My Life in Films. I cannot think of this film in color especially since I first came across the iconic still from the film, of Death in black and the knight in white [...]
Wild Strawberries-1957
Posted in Swedish films, tagged 100 Best Films, Add new tag, Max von Sydow on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bergman’s ‘Smultronstället is a masterpiece. Out of a simple story of a crotchety man who makes a journey from Stockholm to Lund to receive an honorary degree for his fifty years stint as a doctor, the Swedish master has woven a universal saga of you and me. The life of a common man is etched [...]
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