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...last ditch of despair, Bergman finds the courage to be. Life, he cries, is the meaning of life. "Step by step you go into the darkness. The movement itself is the only truth . . . The most dangerous ways are the only passable ones." It is an existentialist statement, and Bergman is a passionate existentialist, but more in Christian Kierkegaard's than in Atheist Sartre's sense. "Man's essence," wrote Sartre, "is his existence." Man's essence, says Bergman, is God's existence. "Somehow life goes on. I believe in life, in this life, a life...
...Existentialist. Hollywood is trying hard to persuade him. Harry Belafonte recently offered him the chance to make a movie with Belafonte in the role of Aleksander Pushkin, the octoroon who was Russia's greatest poet. Bergman declined with thanks (said he: "Pushkin was a genius. Belafonte is not"). And a Hollywood producer has reportedly offered him twelve times the modest annual income (about $22,000) he realizes from all four of his careers if he will make a picture with a big Hollywood star. Bergman has "indicated interest" in making a screen version of The Fall, by Albert Camus...
Caligula, an early work (1944) by the late novelist-playwright Albert Camus, is a study of the fourth and weirdest of the twelve Caesars, which seeks to show that there was a kind of existentialist method in the young emperor's madness -a rebellion against the cruel limitations of the human condition. Star: Kenneth (Look Back in Anger) Haigh, with Colleen Dewhurst. The New Haven Register's Robert J. Leeney called it "brilliant, baffling, raw and rich." (Broadway opening...
...Lonely Aren't Alone) makes his moral clear-and, finally, unnecessarily explicit. Man, saysPick in effect, is a creature of turmoil who, if he is doomed outside the sheltered valleys, is stifled within them. The view, powerfully expressed in a well-written book, is that of an existentialist, a romanticist who believes that a free man is one who accepts the world as incomprehensible...
MEMOIRS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER, by Simone de Beauvoir. France's existentialist termagant. Jean Paul Sartre's first lady of the Left Bank cafés, is at least as candid as she is philosophically stubborn. Her memoirs of girlhood owe most of their charm to the surprising fact that her origins were Catholic, her upbringing puritan. She describes all this with considerable grace, ends with a conversion to Sartre's atheism which seems from her own testimony to be just another straitjacket, but one she can wear with arrogance...