Word: bergmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...naturally bridles at such comparisons, but Mike Frankovich says, "She has the same kind of vulnerability that Ingrid Bergman had. She has great sex, but it's innocent. We thought at first that she was much too young to play in Forty Carats, and she is. But all the other women who wanted the part were either invulnerable or too old. You can't believe that Liv has any promiscuity in her. Even if she has love affairs, she is discreet. In her movies, when she looks at someone...
Many Norwegians, less sexually liberated than their Swedish neighbors, were scandalized by Liv's unmarried motherhood. They harassed her in much the same way as Americans had harassed Ingrid Bergman 22 years before. Letters came in denouncing her as a sinner and a whore. Some told her that she should take the baby into the woods and leave it; others kindly suggested that she should kill herself as well. The Lutheran Church refused to allow the baby to be baptized. Liv went on Norwegian TV to defend her action in an emotion-charged statement. Though she still believes...
...first Bergman film, Persona (1966), was as big a triumph for her as it was for Bergman. She played a great stage actress who suffers an obscure spiritual crisis and decides never to speak again. Nor does she for the rest of the film, except for two words: "No, don't." The plot traced a duel of personality between the actress and her talkative nurse (Bibi Andersson), between the actress's corruption of soul and the nurse's innocence. Deprived of words, Liv spoke with a glance, a turn of the head, an enigmatic Gioconda smile...
Often married and more often involved, Bergman seems to draw new strength and youth from each affair. With Liv as his star and companion, he moved into a new creative phase. His pictures became less theological, less concerned with God, man, and the devil, and more concerned with people, especially women. This whole trend is culminated in his latest film, Cries and Whispers, which has yet to be released in either Sweden...
...Bergman uses women, they gain at least as much from him. "Ingmar gave me much more self-confidence than I had before," says Liv. "He listened to me. Living with him enriched me. I matured. The world I lived in with my husband was smaller, mostly of neighbors and close friends. With Ingmar's friends I had to sharpen up and find my own identity...