I’ve never managed to finish an Ingmar Bergman film at least in part because they’re put on so late but last night I stayed up until the early hours watching Through A Glass Darkly. ‘Classics’ often intimidate me and last night was a lesson in realising that often works of art that are classified this way have been so because they are so good and in the case of this film, so watchable.
Anyway, it was an amazing film and it highlighted for me the possibilities of exploring truly large ideas, philosophical ideas and grand human questions through film. Which makes it sounds terribly dry and serious. It was serious but it’s also very dramatic and there’s something very voyeuristic and thrilling about watching someone go truly mad.
Because of Bergman’s obsession with death it made me connect his work to Woody Allen’s and it turns out (anyone who know anything about Woody Allen would know this I suppose) that Allen is a huge admirer of Bergman. I found this interesting interview with Allen about Bergman on his death in 2007 in Time Magazine.
This is a still from the film where the protagonist is making it up to her brother for mocking his porno magazine - so Swedish!
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