Autumn Sonata (1978)

“There’s no dividing line, no insurmountable wall. I know it can’t be described. It’s a world of liberated feelings. Do you know what I mean? To me, man is a tremendous creation, an inconceivable thought. In man is everything, from the highest to lowest. Everything exists side by side. Realities, not only the reality we…

Fanny and Alexander (1982)

“Everything can happen. Everything is possible and probable. Time and space do not exist. On a flimsy framework of reality, the imagination spins weaving new patterns” I put this film off for so long. After watching Ingmar Bergman’s austere and meditative films of the 1960s (notably Through a Glass Darkly (1961) and Winter Light (1963)) and…