Word: bergman
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...Marlene Dietrich's first film, and as Lola the vamp she sings cabaret songs. Many people think The Grand Illusion the best film ever made; I wouldn't put it that high, but it is undoubtedly a great film. Then there are The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries -- films Bergman has surpassed many times, yet which seem to remain the popular favorites...
...alumnus myself of a distinguished mental hospital not at all unlike Harvard, I was not alarmed at the lightness with which "schixophrenia" was touched upon in King of Hearts. (Myself, I find the morbid excesses of neurosis in Bergman, for example, much less realistic and far more boring, especially when they're sprung upon me in the name of "entertainment...
...couple is the crucible, the experimental part in which Bergman studies and analyzes all other problems." Simon said...
...Bergman himself does not render his best portrayals of women as real people in his three films that deal almost solely with women, Simon said. Only when his women participate in relationships with men does Bergman deal with them on a more human level, he added...
...Marriage or non-marriage, the man-woman relationship is the way Bergman always poses his metaphysical or existential problems," Simon concluded. Simon said he regards this issue as the perfect metaphor for any social or human predicament Bergman choses to illustrate...