european art cinema -- sweden

ingmar bergman (1918-2007)

• swedish director, writer, and producer who worked in film, tv, theater, and radio

• "Bergman was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century […] he found in literature and the performing arts a way of both recreating questioning the human condition” - Philip French

the seventh seal: silence of God

• “is it so cruelly inconceivable to grasp God with the senses? why should He hide himself in a mist of half-spoken promises and unseen miracles? […] what is going to happen to those of us who want to believe but aren’t able to?” - The Seventh Seal

• “faith is a torment — did you know that? it is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you yell” - The Seventh Seal

Wild strawberries

• road movie

• time travel

• visions, dreams and nightmares

• death

• youth, adulthood and old age

• passing of time

• marraige

• religious debate