A drama exploring the pent-up angst between a mother and daughter with emotionally intense performances by Bergman and Ullmann.
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Autumn Sonata (1978)
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Tag / Sweden
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Boy from Heaven (2022)
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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Persona (1966)
Bergman in fine experimental form—still a radical work that explores the theme of personal identity through the performative and illusory medium of cinema.
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Seventh Seal, The (1957)
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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Virgin Spring, The (1960)
One of Bergman’s quietest films, but therein lies a powerful and existential meditation on religion, vengeance and guilt.
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Pleasure (2021)
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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Wild Strawberries (1957)
A ruminative drama on the fear of death and loneliness, matched by a great performance by Victor Sjostrom.
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Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
Bergman’s breakthrough international success is a witty if flirtatious comedy about the laws of sexual attraction and matters of the heart.
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Face to Face (1976)
Bergman fashions a character study as a penetrating psychoanalytic exercise featuring what could be Liv Ullmann’s most intensely vulnerable performance as a psychiatrist suffering from a severe mental breakdown.
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About Endlessness (2019)
Roy Andersson’s latest won’t turn heads, but it is a tender, and at times, world-weary look at the fallibility of human beings as they eke out a despairing existence.
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Eternality Tan 