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...structure of 20th century religious thought, the works of Ingmar Bergman perch like gargoyles. Their gnostic faith belongs to no known dogma; their acrid doubt is too large to sit in the cool shade of existentialism. The Shame, latest of his grotesqueries, once again prays to a dead God, once again mixes actuality and surrealism, calamity and humor, a fertile mind and an arid soul...
...Charles Cinema is The Dove, a short, funny, successful American parody of Ingmar Bergman. It does what no genuine Bergman film has been able to do: bring us closer to Bergman. That's because it plays up all his most endearing traits (low-key lighting, throaty language, immense closeups, symbolism played to the hilt) without his most threatening: his faith...
...ironic (if unsurprising) that Ingmar Bergman, amidst his low-key lighting and contrasty soundtracks, huge closeups and merciless symbolism, should fall prey to his own musing. Bergman's intellect and intuition never quite fuse: they live separately in Bergman the scriptwriter and Bergman the film director. Film is the most direct medium, but Bergman sees his ideas as literary...
...Persona--Ingmar Bergman's horror film about split identity. Through Saturday at the BRATTLE...
HOUR OF THE WOLF. Sweden's Ingmar Bergman relates another of his parables of the dark night of the soul in this eerily symbolic tale of the deepening madness of a reclusive artist...