High society is taken apart with a ruthless hand in Ostlund’s new Cannes Palme d’Or-winning dark comedy that doesn’t always hit the mark but is nevertheless effective in fulfilling its social commentary aims.
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High society is taken apart with a ruthless hand in Ostlund’s new Cannes Palme d’Or-winning dark comedy that doesn’t always hit the mark but is nevertheless effective in fulfilling its social commentary aims.
A drama exploring the pent-up angst between a mother and daughter with emotionally intense performances by Bergman and Ullmann.
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.
Bergman in fine experimental form—still a radical work that explores the theme of personal identity through the performative and illusory medium of cinema.
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.
One of Bergman’s quietest films, but therein lies a powerful and existential meditation on religion, vengeance and guilt.
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.
A ruminative drama on the fear of death and loneliness, matched by a great performance by Victor Sjostrom.
Bergman’s breakthrough international success is a witty if flirtatious comedy about the laws of sexual attraction and matters of the heart.
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.