![]() ![]() These women also found themselves submitting to an intense and intimate working relationship, which sometimes became a sexual one. Among many other things, this is a chance to look anew at the generation of female stars who found immortality through his movies. ![]() ![]() His centenary is being celebrated with a complete retrospective at London’s BFI. Although he had the seriousness and poise of Ibsen or Strindberg, in his younger days he was capable of great comedy and gaiety. A Freudian interpretation of Bergman’s women is tempting, if glib – although the director is himself virtually a parallel Freud, presiding over his own modern mythology of sexual dysfunction and family tragedy.īergman – the great poetic master of doubt, faith, love, erotic enchantment and the silence of God – was born 100 years ago this year. In 1983, he made a short film, Karin’s Face, all about family photographs of his mother Karin (it was a name he continually favoured for characters). Guilt and despair … Liv Ullmann in Cries and Whispers. ![]()
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