Bergman in autumn

Domenick 2022-03-24 09:03:36

I guess there will be fewer and fewer people in the world who will be able to sit quietly and admire Bergman: what to say?
In fact, Bergman is watching us...

The more than 90-minute "Autumn Sonata" has only four main actors, two of which occupy more than 80% of the film's time. It is said that Bergman likes to be on his own Swedish island, his own home, his own actors (friends), his own photographers, and then his own screenwriter and his own director.
Some people say that the goodness of a movie sometimes lies in expressing the richest connotation with the least dialogue. Do you agree? who cares. In fact, what some people say is true, both "knowing" and "not knowing" can produce great art. Do you agree? Anyway I agree.

The entire film is almost all dialogue in Swedish. In the second half of the film, the mother-daughter dialogue in the middle of the night, please pay attention to the transition ahead. Everything is a spring flowing on the stone of life. Breathless, this is Bergman, his power is a kind of digging from the inside out, digging people exhausted and breathless.

But isn't "Whispering and Shouting" hard to look back on? After seeing Bergman, a place in your heart will be hollowed out, empty there, and become a reality.

All great art is directed to the heart. Behold: everyone, everyone, everyone...

Once, Bergman talked to David Lean.

Lean: How did you always make your films?
Bergman: Filmed with 19 of my friends.
Lean: Interesting! I shot it with 180 enemies.

This reminds me of Yasujiro Ozu. More on that later.

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Extended Reading
  • Elbert 2022-03-28 09:01:12

    "This film depicts the emotional alternation of love and hate between a mother and daughter who have reunited after a long absence in just one day and one night. The complex performance of Ingrid Bergman vs/Liv Uman is vividly displayed The subtle human feelings, especially the mother-daughter relationship. It deeply reveals a thought-provoking theme: on the one hand, people yearn for understanding from others, but on the other hand, they often do not understand others.” - recorded from the introduction to the film. "Have you ever understood anyone other than yourself? You have successfully ruined my life, just as you have ruined yourself. As for the mother-daughter relationship, what is this? Emotional? Insanity? Mutual damage is such a terrible feeling. Mixture! The mother's pain must be borne by the daughter, the mother's setbacks in life must be paid by the daughter, and the mother's misfortune and misfortune will turn into the daughter's misfortune, as if the umbilical cord between them was never cut. Mom, yes Isn't the daughter's tragedy or the mother's victory? ...Mom, I'm very frightened, and you're happy?"

  • Muhammad 2022-03-17 09:01:09

    I'd rather see Helena as Eva's subconscious. The extreme of love and hate is a kind of aphasia. Those that can be organized and poured out are always disguised. When Eva used alcohol to express herself and forced her mother with words, Helena struggled violently, and her mother asked for forgiveness for Eva’s failure. Helena called her mother, come here! The mother runs away, Eva is depressed and seems calm, Helena is out of breath, on the verge of collapse, and the last one who shouts is the mother

Autumn Sonata quotes

  • Eva: People like you are a menace. You should be locked away and rendered harmless.

  • Charlotte Andergast: I feel so shut out, I'm always homesick. But when I get home. I find it's something else I'm longing for.