Swedish Cinema – un regard oblique

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

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barcarole:

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.