Dark As the Night

Film, Bergman once wrote, is “a language that literally is spoken from soul to soul in expressions that, almost sensuously, escape the restrictive control of the intellect.” That’s pretty much it.
The trick with watching Bergman, if you haven’t seen much, is to keep watching. He made a lot of films, and not all will speak to everyone. You may see three or four that you don’t like, only to stumble on a movie that changes your life. There aren’t many artists in any field who can do that, even once. Bergman did it again and again. Nobody made movies like his before he came along, and nobody will ever again.

© 2007