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...years of labor this spirit has driven Sweden's Ernst Ingmar Bergman to produce an enormous canon of cinema, comprising 22 feature films and at least four other scripts, that merges into a single vast and violent masterpiece, a work of volcanic profundity and sometimes tumid pretentiousness, of snorting pornography, sly comedy and ripe ironic wisdom-a sort of serial Faust...
Visions at the Box Office. In the last four years the films of Ingmar Bergman (pronounced Bear ih mahn), almost unknown outside Sweden before 1956, have captured an impressive amount of screen-time in more than a dozen countries. One after another-Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Brink of Life, The Magician-they have carried off top prizes at the big film festivals and set the turnstiles twirling on the commercial circuits as no Scandinavian film has done since Garbo was a girl. And last week Stockholm was looking aghast at the latest product...
...himself, loses his powers. But in the last reel of the film, after long sufferings in obscurity, the magician is "called at last" to perform in the presence of the King. And in the latest picture, The Virgin Spring, God makes his first miraculous intervention in the world of Ingmar Bergman. On the spot where the beautiful virgin is brutally done to death, a spring bubbles forth from the dry land. And Bergman cries out, with the voice of the girl's father: "Here I will build unto Thee a church . . . I know no other way to be reconciled...
...whatever he does, Ingmar Bergman will continue with all the force of his extraordinary talent "to express the current dilemma," which he sees as a religious dilemma. God's in his heaven, says Bergman, all's wrong with the world. Man needs a God much closer to home, a God within himself. "If God is not there, life is an outrageous terror" ruled by fate, which has "no answers, merely appointments." Nevertheless, "nobody can live with Death before his eyes, and the knowledge of the nothingness of all things." Life must have a meaning. But the search...
...Magician (Swedish). Brilliant Director Ingmar Bergman tells a Kafkaesque tale of a 19th century Mesmer...