“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…
Tag: Ingmar Bergman
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…
Winter Light (1963)
“This emphasis on physical pain. It couldn’t have been all that bad. It may sound presumptuous of me – but in my humble way, I’ve suffered as much physical pain as Jesus. And his torments were rather brief. Lasting some four hours, I gather? I feel that he was tormented far worse on an other…
Film Ark 