This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection is a true art film, going for an all style approach to cinema. It uses an enclosed frame to single out characters…
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Autumn Sonata 1978
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Autumn Sonata is the sort of harsh chamber piece that only Ingmar Bergman could churn out. It's a brutal rendition of heartless maternal tension.…
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Autumn Sonata 1978
An overwhelmingly claustrophobic chamber piece that clusters every trauma, anxiety and stress its characters ever had and vehemently discharges them through the most disturbingly bleak, sophisticatedly melodramatic monologues there ever…
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Autumn Sonata 1978
"It's just fear and priggishness to believe in limits. There are no limits, neither to thoughts nor feelings. It's anxiety that sets limits." - Eve,
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Autumn Sonata 1978
One of my 2020 Challenge goals is to watch more Ingmar Bergman. I’m off to a slow but fantastic start. First was Persona, and now comes Autumn Sonata. This one is…
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About Endlessness 2019
There’s something amusingly dry about the idea of a 76-minute film called “About Endlessness,” but Roy Andersson isn’t joking. Well, he isn’t only joking.
A Swedish renegade whose pointillistic dioramas…
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About Endlessness 2019
The first half of this is such an exquisite display of tableaux of loneliness and severed connections to love, friendship and faith that I felt I was watching a new…
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About Endlessness 2019
Consisting of a magnetising procession of concise vignettes, and conceivably the final film from the now seventy-seven-year-old Swedish auteur Roy Andersson, About Endlessness is a fascinating and ever-changing poetic requiem…
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