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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...
...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...
...Swedes were less concerned about the couple's morality than the Norwegians, but they were morbidly curious to see Bergman's newest companion. Tourists from Stockholm would take boat trips to the island for a glimpse of Liv; when Bergman built a high stone wall around the house, the tourists countered by bringing light metal ladders along from the mainland. It was the first of several strains that life on Fårö was to entail...
...Complicated. The stark isolation of the place made her feel cut off from things. "When my girl friend and I quarrel and she wants to go away and she is all packed," Bergman told one interviewer matter of factly, "everything is always too complicated. First she has to drive by a very complicated way through the woods. Then the ferry boat leaves only on the hour. From there she has to find a flight. So she ends up staying...
...Bergman loathed parties and was averse to travel outside his usual working orbit of Fårö and Stockholm. Once when he did venture to Rome to see Federico Fellini, his favorite film director, Liv could barely budge him from the hotel room. He insisted that they return every day to the first restaurant they had tried; luckily for both they had not stopped at a snack bar. At dinner he always ordered for both of them. When she recently dined at a restaurant with Bergman and his new wife, Ingrid, Liv watched curiously to see if the pattern...