Word: papagena
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Dates: during 1975-1975
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...times of stress provides comedy relief. The two men, sensing they have been duped by the Queen of the Night, give themselves over to Sarastro's trial of honor. Their reward is true love: Tamino is immediately enamored of Pamina, Papageno swept away by a fey creature named Papagena (Elisabeth Eriksson...
...from being just directorial legerdemain - though they are that - such touches reflect Bergman's continual preoccupation with the stuff of illusion. This obsession links such disparate films as The Magician (1959) and Persona (1966). There are soft shadows of many other Bergman scenes and themes: Papageno and Papagena's indomitable exuberance recalls the peasant couple at the end of The Seventh Seal (1956); the air of blithe innocence and sudden mystery evokes the elegant reveries of Smiles of a Summer Night...
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