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August 22, 2005
Autumn Sonata
Autumn Sonata (1978), Ingmar Bergman:
I still get a kick entering IMDB URLs for old movies and movie people and getting something like http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000005/ (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000001/ for some reason is Fred Astaire).
I'm slowly going through my Ingmar Bergman education, and the mix of Ingmar and Ingrid Bergman (0000006, by the way) was too much to pass by.
I've said before that I can't get into the movie-as-play. I don't know exactly if it's the format or just the type of drama that usually comprises the play, or a mix. Bergman, of course, is well versed in both media and this tends more towards the stage than the screen. Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullman act out another Ing. Bergman family drama, and well, but I don't know. Maybe the screen isn't the best place for an understated acting exercise, better suited for bombastic productions or at the very least having the hook of phenominal cinematography and art design like Cries and Whispers.
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Posted by bing at August 22, 2005 12:34 AM