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‘The Serpent’s Egg’ Marks One of Ingmar Bergman’s Strangest Efforts
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‘The Serpent’s Egg’ Marks One of Ingmar Bergman’s Strangest Efforts

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 / 20 March 2020

The Serpent's Egg bares many of the Bergman's trademark features – the suffocating auras of despair and an underdog's sense of triumph over tragedy – but falls short of a more intelligent rendering of human drama.

War’s Degradation of the Human in Bergman’s ‘Shame’
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War’s Degradation of the Human in Bergman’s ‘Shame’

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 / 8 May 2019
Ingmar Bergman's Shame is one of his few films so blatantly concerned with the impositions of the external world,as opposed to the internal, subjective aspects of life.
When Charles Bronson went to France: ‘Rider on the Rain’ and Cold Sweat’
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When Charles Bronson went to France: ‘Rider on the Rain’ and Cold Sweat’

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 / 26 April 2019

Dismissed as "trash" in their day, Charles Bronson films Rider on the Rain and Cold Sweat belong to a Golden Age of internationally co-produced Euro-thrillers that combine pulp storytelling with stylistic elegance and intense emotion.

‘Persona’ Doesn’t Need to Be Understood to Be Loved
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‘Persona’ Doesn’t Need to Be Understood to Be Loved

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 / 25 April 2014
Ingmar Bergman’s film is profoundly mysterious, and the more we try to comprehend it, the farther away we move from its magic.
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Part 6: Simply the Best: Another “Look” at Liv Ullmann

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 / 22 February 2009