Tag: Ingrid Thulin

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  Winter Light (1963)

  March 20, 2020

  1960s, Arthouse Cinema, Drama, Swedish Cinema

  Continuing my education into the work of director Ingmar Bergman, I picked Winter Light (1963; Nattvardsgästerna) to watch next. Mostly on the basis that it’s one of the big inspirations for Paul Schrader’s First Reformed. In that movie, it was a struggling priest dealing with a suicidal parishoner obsessed with climate change apocalypse – here,… Read.

• Cries And Whispers (1972)

  September 2, 2019

  1970s, Arthouse Cinema, Swedish Cinema

  Ingmar Bergman is a director whose filmography I’ve always chided myself for not knowing more about. For the longest time, I hadn’t seen any of Bergman’s films until I finally watched The Seventh Seal a few years ago, and I was surprised at how funny it was even with its iconic existential imagery (playing chess… Read.