Ingmar Bergman on Life and Work

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Arts Documentary published by Others in 1998 - Swedish narration

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Ingmar Bergman Om liv och arbete

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You can learn as much as you might ever want to know about Bergman's life and work from Jörn Donner's 1998 television interview entitled, appropriately, "Ingmar Bergman on Life and Work." This 90-minute program traces Bergman's childhood and career in film and theater in a reverential manner, interspersed with Bergman's musings on a variety of topics.

The documentary is rather slow moving and consists mostly of close-ups of Bergman talking for long periods of time. But it should prove enlightening to film scholars, if not the general public. But then why would the average moviegoer be cuddling up to Ingmar Bergman? Ultimately, what emerges from this interview is a sense that the elder statesman of Swedish cinema echoes his own youthful creation of Isak Borg: ego and regret and stubbornness all wrapped up in a restless package.