Word: bergmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Ingmar Bergman fails, he does it not with a flump but a crash--a crash because his mastery of film technique is so complete that his movies consistently reach the heights of visual excellence. And from such heights, one can achieve a searing success or a crashing failure...
...SILENCE. The aberrations of two strange sisters dominate Ingmar Bergman's stark, savage but cold-blooded drama, in which both mind and body struggle to find meaning...
...could cite are Willkie, Stevenson, Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson in U.S. politics; Eisenhower, Gruenther and Radford in the military sphere; Nasser, Nkrumah and Castro (whom we recognized as a Communist when he was still being widely hailed as a reforming liberal) among foreign leaders; Saarinen, De Kooning, Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Albert Finney and Shirley MacLaine in the arts...
When Ingmar Bergman exports a film, he often exports Ingrid Thulin too. She was the somber daughter-in-law in Wild Strawberries, the agonized wife of The Magician, and the plain and neurotic schoolmistress in Winter Light. Now she is the deviate sister in Bergman's new film, The Silence...
...father is often called a fisherman in the press, but this, she explains, "only means that he fished all the time." Trained at the Royal Academy, she was nearly always cast as a sex merchant- before Bergman found her. "I always had to play femme fatale roles because I looked a little exotic for Sweden. I never looked like a Swedish woman. I had to play sophisticated ladies with low necks and yulery," she explains, fingering imaginary pearls. Bergman concealed her lavish charms. "It's fun to work with him," she says. "We get very involved emotionally for three...