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Virgin Spring (in Swedish). Ingmar Bergman's mythical and violently beautiful miracle play, derived from a medieval ballad about a farm girl's rape-murder and her father's vengeance, is as clear and grave as a Mass...
...Virgin Spring (Svensk Filmindustri: Janus), the latest work of Ingmar Bergman (TIME, March 14), is a violently beautiful miracle play, an apocalyptic parable in which good and evil, Christian and pagan powers collaborate in a divine rebirth, the continuous nativity of love...
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 untimigated boredom, this Bergman import lacks the sparkle of either Smiles of a Summer Night or A Lesson in Love...
...Innocence. Director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, a Swedish-descended Argentine, shows his debt to Sweden's Ingmar Bergman in a shadowed study of purity, sin-and degeneracy...
...imagination has already begun to kindle. Not knowing why, she kisses a male cousin, then nervously examines pictures thrust at her by street boys. Abruptly the world is darkened. Director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, a Swedish-descended Argentine, shows his debt to Sweden's Ingmar Bergman in simple scenes that to Ana take on a cast of evil-an old woman rapping angrily on a window with her crutch, a man's black-trousered legs visible beneath a mansion gate...