Word: bergmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scandinavians are reaching out in other media. Ingmar Bergman's tortured film canon, topped by The Silence, has built a worldwide movie cult unequaled by any Scandinavian since Garbo's girlhood. Half a dozen Swedish singers, from Kerstin Thorborg to Birgit Nilsson, commute between Stockholm's Royal Opera and Manhattan's Metropolitan. Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal, author of a classic study of the U.S. Negro and his problems, who went on to become executive sec retary of the U.N.'s Economic Commission for Europe, is currently writing what promises to be the definitive work...
...SILENCE. Two women and a child travel to a seemingly godforsaken city that is the geographical center of this dark, brooding allegory directed with breathtaking virtuosity by Ingmar Bergman...
...SILENCE. Lightning bolts of Ingmar Bergman's genius illuminate a dark, chilling allegory in which two women and a child travel to a city abounding in lust, loneliness and death...
...SILENCE. A litany of selfishness, loneliness and death, starkly told and austerely photographed, with a cast of non-normal characters directed with brooding penetration by Ingmar Bergman...
...SILENCE. A tortured lesbian (Ingrid Thulin) and her nymphomaniac sister (Gunnel Lindblom) dominate Ingmar Bergman's bold, beautifully acted drama-though a child and an old man furnish scraps of evidence that the human condition may not be hopeless...