It has always been one of the biggest inspirational for filmmakersmore or less young, for example Woody Allen has never made a secret of her admiration for him: let’s talk about Ingmar Bergman. The author’s films are existential masterpieces and, at the same time, of formal research. With rigorous and literary script writing, coupled with a great deal of attention in the composition of each frame, Bergman’s films will forever remain pillars of cinematography: it is therefore a duty to retrace the director’s career through his most important titles.
About Ingmar Bergman
It is now established when someone thinks something about Ingmar Bergmanthe reference immediately goes to Ingrid Bergman and the great misunderstanding is created immediately: let’s clear it up immediately. Who moved Ingrid Bergman? The Swedish director had one wife named Ingrid who, as a married woman, took the surname Bergman, however it had nothing to do with the famous actress. Ingmar Bergman and Ingrid Bergman weren’t even relatedthat is, the filmmaker and the actress: they crossed briefly during their careers, but nothing more. How many children did Ingrid Bergman have? If we refer to the author’s wife, no one is with him. Ingmar Bergman and his loves however they are definitely numerous: yes it is married five times and had in everything nine children.
In 1943 he married Else Fischerdancer and choreographer, with whom he had a daughter, the future writer Lena Bergman. In 1944, they both fell ill with tuberculosis and during that time Bergman met Ellen Lundström, also a dancer, with whom she entered into a relationship. When Ellen became pregnant with her, he decided to divorce Else and married her: the two had four children. In 1950 he got a divorce from Ellen and the new flame, Gun Hagberg (a reporter), while she became pregnant. Towards the end of the 1950s she met the pianist Käbi Laretei, who became his fourth wife. In 1964 he fell in love with the actress Liv Ullmann and from their union a daughter was born Linn Ullmann. Bergman left his former wife and went to live with Liv and her daughter. Bergman married in 1971 Ingrid Kalebo von Rosen, the one who is confused with actress Ingrid Bergman. In 1995 Ingrid died and the director went into depression: he retired to his small island of Fårö in the Baltic Sea, finding some comfort in the fact that all of his children had become actors. Other relationships of him were those with the actresses were Harriet Andersson, Bibi Andersson And Ingrid Thulin.
Ingmar Bergman’s cinema
At the heart of what it is Ingmar Bergman’s cinema there is the investigation on universal and existential themes. The scripts have the care and depth of truth literary workswhich is combined with an incredible expressive force in making images. For those who think that to make films you necessarily need large capital and covered shoulders, the example of de The seventh seal: the film is processed starting from one theatrical scriptwith very articulate dialogues, opposed by manufacturersin the end it is realized almost at no cost. Today he is one of the first examples of great cinematography which are made to anyone who approaches the seventh art, such as director or simple enthusiast. Every word is weighted for Bergman, who knows no rush when he works on his scripts. Small curiosity: what is in the title of Ingmar Bergman’s film The seventh seal? It is the last seal among those who close the book of God, according to the book of the Apocalypse of St. John. Biblical and religious references are manifold in Bergman’s work, defined by some as a “religious atheist”. Often the juxtaposition of his actresses’ spirituality and earthly beauty creates a certain scandal.
Ingmar Bergman film
Which are of Ingmar Bergman the best films? Very difficult to make a selection, even if his greatest successes remain The seventh seal, The place of strawberries, Scenes from a wedding And Fanny and Alexander. However the career of a filmmaker like Ingmar Bergman is also made up of debut films and others that are more “niche”. Anyway, here is a summary of the Ingmar Bergman’s unmissable filmsthose who changed the history of cinema and which still inspire directors of different generations.
Spasm Ingmar Bergman
Among the first works as a screenwriter of the author, Spasm by Ingmar Bergman (1944) tells the story of a professor, nicknamed Caligula, severe and suffocating with his students. Stig Järrel, the lead actor, appears made up to look like Himmler, the head of the Gestapo, of which he becomes a sort of caricature. The film, interpreted as an attack on the Nazism, is highly appreciated. Bergman declares, in any case, that he is interested in the figure of Hitler, at least for what he is able to arouse.
Crisis Ingmar Bergman
The leitmotif of the film Crisis by Ingmar Bergman, of 1946, is the generational clash in the post-war era. The story is about a girl who, after many vicissitudes, finds her mother and marries her young man who has long been in love with her.
The seventh seal Ingmar Bergman
The famous opera The seventh seal by Ingmar Bergman was finished in 1956: the subject comes directly from a play by Bergman, written in 1954, for an acting essay by the students of the Dramatic Academy of Malmö, entitled Painting on wood. When the production grants the financing for the transposition into film, the pact is that the processing does not last more than thirty days. The work, very dear to the director, ends up being shot with very little budget and scarce means. The film strengthens the director’s popularity.
The place of strawberries Ingmar Bergman
Among the most famous films, The place of strawberries by Ingmar Bergman it is the work that leads him to international success. Released in 1958, with the author at the time very busy also from a theatrical point of view, he dedicated himself to it with self-denial, so much so that at the end of the shooting Bergman had to be hospitalized for a nervous breakdown. The film is a detached one meditation on life and deathgets theGolden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and the critics prize at the Venice Film Festival.
Like in a mirror Ingmar Bergman
In the late 1950s, Ingmar Bergman was asked to work on the Royal Swedish Theaterin the meantime he thinks about the realization of a film set on an island: without being satisfied by Orkney, he goes to the Baltic where he discovers the barren and wild island of Lighthouse: its landscape inspires the so-called trilogy of God’s silenceof which it is a part Like in a mirror by Ingmar Bergmanpresented at the 1962 Berlin Film Festival. Speaking of Like a mirror and its plot, the story tells of Karin, who discharged from the psychiatric hospital returns home to her island but, remaining emotionally disturbed, begins to feel that God is visiting her. The other films in the trilogy are Winter lights (1962) and Silence (1963), which gives scandal. In 2021 the film On the island of Bergman pays tribute to Lighthouse and, in some ways, to its characters.
Person Ingmar Bergman
Person by Ingmar Bergmanfrom 1966, is the first film of the so-called Fårö’s tetralogywhere the director retires and transforms into a sort of “cinema island“. Person is Bergman’s most experimental style work: the masterful black and white of Sven Nykvistthe use of the foreground and the surreal sequences represent the unconscious and the essence of the cinema in cinemaas in the scene of the film that burns curling up on itself.
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Scenes from a wedding Ingmar Bergman
Scenes from a wedding by Ingmar Bergman born as one episodic series for televisionthen it comes made into a movie in 1973. Almost as if to close a circle, the work on the couple crisis by Ingmar Bergman Scenes from a wedding in 2021 it returns to being a streaming TV series, in remake with Jessica Chastain And Oscar Isaac.
Fanny and Alexander Ingmar Bergman
It could be said that Fanny and Alexander by Ingmar Bergman, from 1982, represents for the director a sort of farewell to the scenes, even if it is not in all respects his latest film, it is for the big screen. Portrait of Uppsala, Bergman’s hometown, between 1907 and 1909, the opera for TV and cinema is one of the most strongly autobiographical of the author.
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