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While death occurs as frequently as it does in most cinema (where death is almost as ubiquitous as it is in real life), it isn’t a central concern in most of his work and questions of religious faith feature in still fewer movies, and hardly at all after Winter Light (1962). Look closely at Bergman’s oeuvre in toto and you won’t find someone constantly obsessing about death or God’s silence. And someone whose best known film – The Seventh Seal (1957) – is quite atypical (he made few films which were allegorical or set in the distant past), and which has therefore reinforced many misunderstandings about his work. Someone who preferred the company of a close circle of friends and collaborators, and spent much of his life reclusively on the island of Fårö. Here, too, is someone who, notwithstanding two volumes of mischievous, possibly unreliable autobiography, kept his personal life private, even as he poured his own emotions into his films. It is released on BFI DVD and Blu-ray on 23 April. The Touch screens as part of Ingmar Bergman: A Definitive Film Season at BFI Southbank, London, from 23-28 February 2018 and at select UK cinemas.
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