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Love (2024)

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Tag / Sweden

March 9, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Fรฅrรถ Document (1970)

  • Bergman, Ingmar, Criterion Collection
  • 1970, Documentary, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
  • 1 Comment

Bergmanโ€™s first documentary provides a rather brief but still insightful look at the residents (farmer, schoolteacher, newly married couple, and more) of the isolated Fรฅrรถ Island, poetically shot by longtime collaborator Sven Nykvist.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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March 3, 2024March 3, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Guitar Mongoloid, The (2004)

  • Ostlund, Ruben
  • 2004, Ruben Ostlund, Sweden
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Perverse and provocative yet bland and uneven, Ostlundโ€™s low-fi debut feature is at best a curiosity, a Roy Andersson-meets-Ulrich Seidl series of docu-fictive vignettes.

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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July 14, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Winter Light (1963)

  • Bergman, Ingmar, Criterion Collection
  • 1963, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
  • 1 Comment

A small-town priest must contend with the silence of God as he is overwhelmed with existential doubts in one of Bergmanโ€™s sparest works about the limits of religious faith.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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November 12, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Triangle of Sadness (2022)

  • Ostlund, Ruben
  • 2022, Ruben Ostlund, Sweden
  • 3 Comments

High society is taken apart with a ruthless hand in Ostlund’s new Cannes Palme dโ€™Or-winning dark comedy that doesnโ€™t always hit the mark but is nevertheless effective in fulfilling its social commentary aims.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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July 23, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Autumn Sonata (1978)

  • Bergman, Ingmar, Criterion Collection
  • 1978, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
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A drama exploring the pent-up angst between a mother and daughter with emotionally intense performances by Bergman and Ullmann. ย 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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July 18, 2022May 30, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Boy from Heaven (2022)

  • Others
  • 2022, France, Sweden
  • 3 Comments

Using familiar genre tropes to tackle provocative themes, this shot-in-Istanbul, Cairo-set Cannes Best Screenplay winner asks hard questions about the troubling intersections between political and religious institutions. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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July 13, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Persona (1966)

  • Bergman, Ingmar, Criterion Collection
  • 1966, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
  • 2 Comments

Bergman in fine experimental formโ€”still a radical work that explores the theme of personal identity through the performative and illusory medium of cinema.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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July 9, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Seventh Seal, The (1957)

  • Bergman, Ingmar, Criterion Collection
  • 1957, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
  • 1 Comment

Bergman’s most famous and influential work captures the torment of existence and mortality as a weary knight seeks for the elusive assurance of God as Death comes for him.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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June 24, 2022July 14, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Virgin Spring, The (1960)

  • Bergman, Ingmar, Criterion Collection
  • 1960, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
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One of Bergmanโ€™s quietest films, but therein lies a powerful and existential meditation on religion, vengeance and guilt.  

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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June 5, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Pleasure (2021)

  • Others
  • 2021, Sweden
  • 2 Comments

A young Swedish woman travels to Los Angeles in hopes of becoming a porn star in this sexually explicit if eye-opening dramatisation of professionalism, as coded by pleasure, pain, power and submission.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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