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(For those in the area, Ingmar Bergmans Centennial Retrospective begins February 7.
But the memetic quality of this endlessly reproduced image sometimes threatens to obscure its actual significance.
Bergman earns the optimism of his concluding scene bit by bit, and bitterly.
Persona(1966)And now for something completely different.
Bergmans detour into abstract psycho-horror doesnt even completely fit that description.
Right, right, but whatisit?
From there, interpretations get highly subjective.
Here, his reds embody savagery and serenity, life force and the violence that can extinguish it.
(They even put it on stamps!)
Let us be kind, generous, affectionate and good.
It is necessary and not at all shameful to take pleasure in the little world.
But not until hes done with you.
