Word: bjornstrand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between his screen and his audience. Still, many of the devices he uses are vintage Bergman. Gaunt Max von Sydow, for example, plays the archteypal Bergman male--weak and childish, incapable of even killing a hen for supper, leaning on Liv Ullman, his strong loving wife (much like Gunnar Bjornstrand and Eva Dahlbeck in a happier film, Smiles of a Summer Night). Here, too, the estranged couple is at the end reunited. But even these familiar touches are now used in a new way. The dialogue more than ever belongs to the characters, not to Bergman. Bergman has been released...
...SHAME. Ingmar Bergman examines war and the artistic conscience in his 29th film. The visual imagery is brilliantly desolate, and the performances-by Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand and Liv Ullman-are orchestrated with precision...
...SHAME. Ingmar Bergman's 29th film is a tonal allegory involving a nameless war, a broken marriage and existential doubt. The performances by such Bergman regulars as Max von Sydow and Gunnar Bjornstrand are letter-perfect, but Liv Ullman, newest member of the Bergman company, portrays the spectrum of feminine response with special brilliance...
Bergman's Opus I is constructed conscientiously as a quartet, a thematic analysis of four lives. The lives are those of a well-known novelist (Gunnar Bjornstrand), his 17-year-old son (Lars Passgard), his married daughter (Harriet Andersson) and her doctor husband (Max von Sydow), all on vacation on an isolated Baltic island. The daughter, who has recently been electroshocked out of schizophrenia, is trying to face the difficult facts of her life: a devoted husband whom she does not love, a selfish father whose love she needs but cannot have, an ego that stands fascinated, like...
...third vignette fits awkwardly into the picture's symbolism and shows, too, that Bergman's best comic effort (which this probably is) tends to the lumbering side. Couple trapped in elevators hardly ever are very funny, and this particular twosome (Gunnar Bjornstrand and Eva Dahlbeck) aren't worth even as many laughs as a Berle kinescope...