Word: bergmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More Stately Mansions, the dream comes true, but it turns out to be more like a nightmare. A suffocating drama of deadly possessiveness is played out among a mother (Ingrid Bergman), a wife (Colleen Dewhurst) and a son-husband (Arthur Hill). This is a Laocoon trio, coiled in a strangling embrace in which no one can leave the others, or leave them alone. The face of love is blistered with hate, and ecstasy mirrors anguish. The language of the heart is used to mask the power politics of the emotions, and love becomes war. The terms: unconditional surrender...
Working & Worrying. In part, Bergman avoids steady acting because of the fearful intensity with which she approaches it. "When I work, I concentrate completely, and I have not husband nor children. I cannot divide myself. I have to do one thing at the time." Not that she could ever retire...
...Danholmen, Bergman becomes "completely myself," tending fishnets, hauling wood, pumping water from the well. "The year is very easily passed without work," she admits. Two years ago, she did a London revival of Turgenev's A Month in the Country, and last season an ABC television special, Jean Cocteau's The Human Voice. She has not tried a movie since her unpersuasive appearance in The Yellow Rolls-Royce...
...personality that they like, more than the performance. People popped all of us into little boxes. If they wanted someone to be a bad woman, they opened the little box marked Bette Davis. If they wanted a saintly woman, they opened the little box marked Ingrid Bergman...
...after next week. In More Stately Mansions, Bergman will play an odious matriarch battling her daughter-in-law for her son. Equally important is the chance to perform a "good play" by "America's greatest playwright, one whose work the people ought to be seeing." Despite her personal tranquillity, Bergman is worried about "a world where there can be no peace, where people are continuously hurting each other...