Filming for me is an illusion planned in detail, the reflection of a reality which the longer I live seems to me more and more illusory.
Ingmar Bergman, The Magic Lantern – IV (trans. Joan Tate) | via
images that haunt us
Filming for me is an illusion planned in detail, the reflection of a reality which the longer I live seems to me more and more illusory.
Ingmar Bergman, The Magic Lantern – IV (trans. Joan Tate) | via

The Passion of Anna, 1969
Max von Sydow
in Jungfrukällan |
The Virgin Spring, directed by Ingmar Bergman, 1960. | src
neo-catharsis
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I didn’t want to accept my wretched role. But now it’s too damn lonely. We try out attitudes and find them all worthless. The forces are all too strong. The forces… the horrible forces. You need to watch your step among all the ghosts and memories.
Tystnaden (The Silence), Ingmar Bergman, 1963.

Gunnel Lindblom as Anna in Tystnaden
/ The Silence (directed by Ingmar Bergman, 1963) / source: le ballet mécanique and IMDb
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