Swedish director Ingmar Bergman created some of cinema's most philosophically profound and psychologically complex works, including The Seventh Seal and Persona, exploring themes of mortality, identity and the human condition. I have reviewed 3 of his films on the site so far.
Rating: 3.5★
There is a slightly awkward truth I have had to make my peace with after working my way through a fair chunk of Ingmar Bergman's filmography: I keep coming away respecting these films rather than loving them. I admire them. I think about them afterwards. And then I
Rating: 2.5★
There's a moment early in Winter Light when Bergman simply lets his camera sit in a Swedish church and watch a Sunday service play out, nearly in full, in real time. No cuts to spare you, no intercutting to build tension, just the sermon, the sparse congregation, the
Genre Drama
★★★ — Persona (1966)
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