Word: virginity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your fine review of Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring approaches the film from the only possible angle-that of the myth that it is. It could serve as an example to other reviewers, too, many of whom fallaciously judge films (and books and plays) on the basis of what they are not, rather than what they...
...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...
Bach's Magnificat in D, for Tovey, his "most comprehensively representative work," has proved itself an arduous undertaking for almost every choral group. Bach himself conceived the Song of the Virgin as an intricately subtle and profoundly joyous cantata, and he wrote for it instrumental parts that are as demanding as they are various and voice parts that combine a considerable amount of colortura with an unusually high tessitura. Under Elliot Forbe's direction, most of the intricacies were blurred, and the joy appeared in frequent flashes...
...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...
Like the ballad that inspired it. The Virgin Spring is a myth, and as a myth it is treated in this film. Bergman's style, usually subtle and allusive, is startlingly simple. The script, written under Bergman's supervision by Novelist Ulla Isaksson, who also did the screenplay for Brink of Life, is as clear and grave as a Mass. The actors, as always finely disciplined by Bergman, behave as formally as acolytes. The photography is as beautiful as it generally is in Bergman's pictures, but if anything more plain-there are very few cute shots...