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...Born. To Ingmar Bergman, 44, Sweden's master of metaphysical cinema, and his fourth wife, Kabi Laretei. 40, an Estonian-born pianist: their first child (his sixth), a son; in Stockholm...
...Ingmar Bergman needs no praise for those Brattle patrons who saw his delightful Smiles of a Summer Night. And just as that earlier, lighter master work examined the forms and varieties of eros, so The Seventh Seal probes the modes and species of fides. Every form of Christian faith seems to be present here--what Kierkegaard prayed for and what made Nietzsche gnash his teeth. Gunner Bjorstrand as the jaded, worldly squire voices a despairing stoic atheism that sounds perhaps too contemporary for the middle of the fourteenth century. Nils Poppe as the peasant Jof, on the other hand, accepts...
Cambridge devotees of Ingmar Bergman will have to wait for The Virgin Spring if it's the artistic manipulation of a new and different situation they're after. For Dreams sheds little light on the already thoroughly essayed subject of mis-matched lovers. Marred by disturbing patches of unmitigated boredom, this Bergman import lacks the sparkle of either Smiles of a Summer Night or A Lesson in Love...
From July 29 until the beginning of September the Air Conditioned Brattle Theatre, as it has taken to calling itself, will present some 18 movies directed by Ingmar Bergman. These are billed, collectively, as the second half of the Brattle's "seventh annual summer film festival." Well, that kind of program is no summer festival: Bergman has made one masterpiece (Wild Strawberries), and two movies worth seeing (The Seventh Seal and Smiles of a Summer Night), but the rest of his movies are either bad or silly...
Through a Glass Darkly. A brilliant analysis of four lives-a father, his son, daughter and son-in-law-by Sweden's Ingmar Bergman...