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Secrets of Women (Svensk Filmindus-tri; Janus) is Swedish Director Ingmar Bergman's belatedly exported first comedy, filmed in 1952. during a period of relative lightheartedness-Death enters the film momentarily, but he goes away. Four dissatisfied wives, to put the matter redundantly, are having coffee in a summerhouse. While they wait for their husbands to arrive for the weekend, each tells of the moment when she became resigned to the clod she married. In the brilliant, imperfect episodes that follow, Bergman illustrates the Chesterfieldian proposition that he went on to prove later in Smiles of a Summer Night...
...book has few such lapses of logic. Whether he is blasting William Faulkner for his ambiguous stand on the Negro problem or interviewing Swedish Movie Director Ingmar Bergman, Author Baldwin writes with grace and insight. His accounts of trips to two Southern cities are balanced and perceptive. He also makes it plain that whites who try to get into the castle of the black man's skin are tolerated at best. Says Baldwin of his friend Norman Mailer: "They thought he was a real sweet ofay* cat but a little frantic...
BRATTLE: Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring continues for another week. The Motion Picture Academy called it the best foreign film of 1960. Our man found it "a brilliant failure." Evenings...
...Watching Ingmar Bergman's films, a moment arrives when the game of "Symbol, Symbol, who's got the Symbol," no longer suffices, the splicing of brilliant scenes becomes disjointed rather than hypnotic, and Bergman's subtle meanings are no more than a house of mirrors. When this happens, the result is failure; The Virgin Spring is a brilliant failure...
Starts Sunday: The Motion Picture Academy chose Ingmar Bergman's THE VIRGIN SPRING for its best foreign film award four nights back, and the Academy will doubtless receive the pleased applause of the N.Y. Times, the N.Y. Herald Tribune, Saturday Review, Time, Cue, Newsweek and the N.Y. Daily News, all of which oracles found the movie "one of the year's best." In Point of fact, The Virgin Spring is one of Bergman's least successful films: its is cloyingly medieval, pointlessly sadistic, ambiguously surrealistic. Evngs...