Ingmar Bergman was a nine-time Academy Award-nominated Swedish film, stage, and opera director. He found bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of modern cinema. He directed 62 films, most of which he wrote, and directed over 170 plays. Some of his internationally known favourite actors were Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, and Max von Sydow. Most of his films were set in the landscape of his native Sweden. The themes were often bleak, dealing with illness, betrayal, and insanity. Bergman was active for more than 60 years and he died on July 30th 2007.
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Ingmar Bergman is known for masterpieces of controlled human emotion, exploring every facet of the personality in relentless detail. He wrote, I had the possibility of corresponding with the world around me in a language that is literally spoken from soul to soul. Persona is a brooding study of... Read more
Published: 2002
Pages: 192
Paperback: 9780714507576
Ingmar Bergman is known for masterpieces of controlled human emotion, exploring every facet of the personality in relentless detail. He wrote, I had the possibility of corresponding with the world around me in a language that is literally spoken from soul to soul.
Persona is a brooding study of personal disintegration, as Elizabeth, an actress recovering from a severe emotional breakdown, is cared for by Alma, her apparently well-balanced and extrovert nurse. Slowly the barriers that separate and define the two woman crumble, and their relationship turns into a bewildering reversal and substitution of their respective identities.
Shame pitches Jan and Eva, husband and wife and both professional musicians, into a world torn apart by civil war. Completely brutalised by the progressive breakdown of all civilised standards of behaviour, Jan and Eva’s fate reflects how superficial culture, good order and morality are when set against the lack of concern of an arbitrary and amoral universe.
Bergman’s ability to combine the greatest universality with the most delicate intimacy of characterisation and narrative gives these two screenplays the inescapable power of myth.
Liberally illustrated with production stills, the volume also includes "The Snakeskin", Bergman's address written for the presentation of the Erasmus Prize ni Amsterdam, 1965.