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...dominant, domineering authorial voice in Bergman's films was an expression of his own force of personality. He mesmerized actors, his crew, producers, everybody. In the early '40s he applied for a writing job at Svensk Filmindustri, the main movie studio in Sweden, and was interviewed by Stina Bergman, widow of playwright Hjalmar Bergman and head of the studio's script department. "He seemed to emerge with a scornful laugh from the darkest corner of Hell," she later recalled, but with "a charm so deadly that after a couple of hours' conversation, I had to have three cups of coffee...
ROBERT E. SVENSK Boston...
Through a Glass Darkly (Svensk Filmindustri; Janus) is one of the best and certainly the ripest of Ingmar Bergman's creations, a film as subtle as Wild Strawberries but solider in substance-the first film in which Bergman creates a hero who can love and characters for whom the spectator cannot help but care. "The other pictures I have made," says Bergman, "have been only études. This is Opus...
...Devil's Eye (Svensk Filmindustri), a minor, clever, somewhat symbolixed comedy by Sweden's Ingmar Bergman, is intended as a bawdy song of innocence and experience, a frisky marriage of heaven and hell...
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...