Post by Capo on Jul 23, 2007 1:19:51 GMT
Skammen
Shame
Ingmar Bergman 1968 Sweden
A married couple are brought under turmoil when war breaks out and their home is invaded politically opposed forces.
Obscure even by Bergman's standards, a rather apocalyptic and very bleak psychological study of a marriage falling apart, under the allegorical stress of a military invasion. Enlightenment of any meaning outside (or under) its aesthetic comes in fits and starts, meandering from one elusive, unusual feeling to the next. But it has a deeply unsettling atmosphere from the start (relentless church bells in the distance, anonymous phone calls) to the finish (a boat in an endless swamp of water, with the navigator willingly disappearing overboard), with excellent sound design and performances from von Sydow and Ullmann.
Shame
Ingmar Bergman 1968 Sweden
A married couple are brought under turmoil when war breaks out and their home is invaded politically opposed forces.
Obscure even by Bergman's standards, a rather apocalyptic and very bleak psychological study of a marriage falling apart, under the allegorical stress of a military invasion. Enlightenment of any meaning outside (or under) its aesthetic comes in fits and starts, meandering from one elusive, unusual feeling to the next. But it has a deeply unsettling atmosphere from the start (relentless church bells in the distance, anonymous phone calls) to the finish (a boat in an endless swamp of water, with the navigator willingly disappearing overboard), with excellent sound design and performances from von Sydow and Ullmann.