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Tag / Sweden

November 12, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Triangle of Sadness (2022)

  • Ostlund, Ruben
  • 2022, Ruben Ostlund, Sweden
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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.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

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.  

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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July 18, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Boy from Heaven (2022)

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  • 2022, France, Sweden
  • 1 Comment

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. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐

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
  • 1 Comment

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

⭐⭐⭐⭐

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.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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June 24, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Virgin Spring, The (1960)

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

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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June 5, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Pleasure (2021)

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  • 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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May 5, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Wild Strawberries (1957)

  • Bergman, Ingmar, Criterion Collection
  • 1957, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
  • 2 Comments

A ruminative drama on the fear of death and loneliness, matched by a great performance by Victor Sjostrom.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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April 25, 2022July 9, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)

  • Bergman, Ingmar, Criterion Collection
  • 1955, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
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Bergman’s breakthrough international success is a witty if flirtatious comedy about the laws of sexual attraction and matters of the heart.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 1, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Face to Face (1976)

  • Bergman, Ingmar
  • 1976, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
  • 4 Comments

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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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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