Posted on 31/07/07
A director's director
From the mid-1950s to the early 1980s, through such masterpieces as The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Winter Light, Through A Glass Darkly, Persona, Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage and Fanny and Alexander, Ingmar Bergman's films were synonymous with art-house complexity and profundity. The Shakespeare of cinema even inspired an adjective, Bergmanesque, which meant bleak, suffocating, symbol-laden and bordering on hysteria.
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