Cinema: Disappointing Bergman

Disappointing Bergman Itis impossible to be quite fair enough to Ingmar Bergman. He has done too well. Too much is demanded. In a career of more than 25 years, he has made half a dozen films that must be considered great. His anguish after God, his personal pain and his peerless intellect have yielded such classics as The Naked Night (1953), The Seventh Seal (1956) and Wild Strawberries (1958). Of his more recent films, Persona is one of the most complex personal works in all of the cinema, and Shame and The Passion of Anna...

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