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Proust and Pet. Liv's ideal of conjugal life with Bergman was very conventional. She had a vision of them walking arm and arm along a softly lighted green walk, baby carriage in front and nanny and dog behind. It was a vision out of an old romantic movie or her favorite author, Proust. Ingmar was not interested in wheeling a baby carriage, however, and Liv lapsed into the frightened schoolgirl again. She was not only afraid that the nanny's feelings would be hurt if she pushed the carriage, but she was even worried that the dachshund...
Lovers to Friends. Eventually Liv and Bergman agreed to a three-month trial separation, and she took Linn, who was nursery-school-age by this time, home to Oslo. With distance between her and Bergman, relations seemed to improve. They talked nightly on the phone, sometimes for as long as two hours. Liv finally told Bergman she wanted to come back. He responded cordially but vaguely, and soon Liv received a letter telling her it was all over. "There is nothing," she says, "that you can say to a letter...
...that they are no longer lovers, Liv and Bergman are friends. They had no difficulty working together on Cries and Whispers or on a six-part series for Swedish television called Scenes Out of a Marriage, Bergman's longest project so far. They can even laugh together. Once after Cries was finished shooting for the day Liv suggested that they all go to the circus in a nearby town. "I'm not going. I'm going to have a breakdown," joked Bergman. "Can we come to that instead?" asked Liv sweetly. "It sounds a lot more exciting...
...affair with Bergman, Liv resembled another famous Norwegian woman, Nora Helmer in Ibsen's A Doll's House (1879). Like Nora, Liv was loved and protected but also patronized. "I have existed merely to perform tricks for you, Torvald," said Ibsen's heroine to her husband. "But you would have it so." Like Nora, Liv rebelled. As Nora's husband commented shortly before she closed that famous door on her domestic life, "she is terribly self-willed, this sweet little person...
...television series about marriage Bergman has used Liv to symbolize a woman's emerging consciousness. "Bergman is now starting to create a sort of new woman character," says Liv, "a woman who is really free and who can live without the help and support...