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“God, why hast thou forsaken me?” With Winter Light, Ingmar Bergman explores the search for redemption in a meaningless existence. Small-town pastor Tomas Ericsson (Gunnar Björnstrand) performs his duties mechanically before a dwindling congregation, including his stubbornly devoted lover, Märta (Ingrid Thulin). When he is asked to assuage a troubled parishioner’s (Max von Sydow) debilitating fear of nuclear annihilation, Tomas is terrified to find that he can provide nothing but his own doubt. The beautifully photographed Winter Light is an unsettling look at the human craving for personal validation in a world seemingly abandoned by God.

Ingmar Bergman - (1963) Winter Light.mkv

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The post Ingmar Bergman – Nattvardsgästerna AKA Winter Light (1963) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other.

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At the height of his international acclaim, Ingmar Bergman followed two meditations on death, The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries, with an examination of the mystery and pain of birth. This intimate chamber drama, set in a maternity ward, follows the emotional crises of three women as they grapple with motherhood. Another major success for the director that was also recognized for its exquisite performances by Ingrid Thulin, Eva Dahlbeck, and Bibi Andersson, Brink of Life is one of Bergman’s most brilliantly nuanced explorations of the inner lives of women.

Brink.of.Life.1958.1080p.BluRay.FLAC.x264-SPiRiT.mkv

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It is a hot and muggy summer’s day in Näsviken, a small community at the edge of logger country Sweden. Barely surviving, the run-down hostel has been turned into housing for alcoholics in the county. In the midst of this, a young woman spends her days.

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Agnes (Ingrid Thulin), daughter of the goddess Indra, has come to Earth to learn about what it means to be human. She meets many people in her journey. The figures that guide her most are Alfred (Uno Henning), an officer who becomes a doctor; Axel (Allan Edwall), the lawyer that she weds, and the poet (Olof Widgren) who may be the author of her dreams. What she observes and experiences makes her pity mankind.

Ett dromspel (1963).mkv

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Jan fights impotence (literal and symbolic) and anguished childhood memories in a decadent Swedish castle where risqué parties and daring scenes defy 1960s’ movie censorship, reaffirming the ground-breaking role of Swedish films in helping advance adult, sexually concerned themes in international cinema.

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https://nitro.download/view/0CF09E1513BE5BE/Night.Games.1966.Mai.Zetterling.576p.BluRay.x264.mkv

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The hero of the film (Yves Montand) is a Spanish citizen who has been engaged ever since the war’s end in a variety of underground anti-Franco movements. He is part of a network that moves people and information in and out of Spain, prepares reports, calls general strikes, prints propaganda newspapers and does everything else that seems to be indicated. But the members of the underground are weary; they subscribe to political dogmas that no longer seem relevant, except to a few of them; they can show few tangible results.

Resnais conceives his entire film in terms of the one character. He has loyally served the underground, but he begins to believe their decisions are the wrong ones. They sit in Paris and call general strikes, and when he returns from Madrid to protest, they tell him he had been “misled by reality.”

In the course of exchanging a passport, he meets a young girl (Genevieve Bujold) who is involved in another, much younger, movement against Franco. One afternoon after he argues with futility that his superiors are following the wrong policy, he encounters the girl and her young associates.

They plan violence, plastic bombs, anarchy. They believe that the tourist trade can be stopped if terrorists attack popular resorts. Their reasoning is alien to the methodical nature of his own work over three decades, and suddenly he finds himself in the middle, convinced both approaches are wrong, almost convinced at last that nothing can be done.

Resnais’ previous films (“Hiroshima, Mon Amour,” “Last Year at Marienbad”) were explorations of the subconscious. With “La Guerre Est Finie” he unexpectedly gives us not only psychology but an exciting thriller, done with great artistry.

The hero of the film (Yves Montand) is a Spanish citizen who has been engaged ever since the war’s end in a variety of underground anti-Franco movements. He is part of a network that moves people and information in and out of Spain, prepares reports, calls general strikes, prints propaganda newspapers and does everything else that seems to be indicated. But the members of the underground are weary; they subscribe to political dogmas that no longer seem relevant, except to a few of them; they can show few tangible results.

Resnais conceives his entire film in terms of the one character. He has loyally served the underground, but he begins to believe their decisions are the wrong ones. They sit in Paris and call general strikes, and when he returns from Madrid to protest, they tell him he had been “misled by reality.”

In the course of exchanging a passport, he meets a young girl (Genevieve Bujold) who is involved in another, much younger, movement against Franco. One afternoon after he argues with futility that his superiors are following the wrong policy, he encounters the girl and her young associates.

They plan violence, plastic bombs, anarchy. They believe that the tourist trade can be stopped if terrorists attack popular resorts. Their reasoning is alien to the methodical nature of his own work over three decades, and suddenly he finds himself in the middle, convinced both approaches are wrong, almost convinced at last that nothing can be done.

Resnais’ previous films (“Hiroshima, Mon Amour,” “Last Year at Marienbad”) were explorations of the subconscious. With “La Guerre Est Finie” he unexpectedly gives us not only psychology but an exciting thriller, done with great artistry.

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https://nitroflare.com/view/5A994F61D03B4F6/La_Guerre_est_finie_AKA_The_War_is_Over_(1966).mkv

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The post Alain Resnais – La guerre est finie AKA The War Is Over (1966) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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With this spare chamber piece, set in an empty theater, Ingmar Bergman returned to his perennial theme of the permeability of life and art. Lingering after a rehearsal for August Strindberg’s A Dream Play (a touchstone for the filmmaker throughout his career), eminent director Henrik (Erland Josephson) enters into a frank and flirtatious conversation with his up-and-coming star, Anna (Lena Olin), leading him to recall his affair with Anna’s late mother, the self-destructive actress Rakel (Ingrid Thulin). The sharply written and impeccably performed After the Rehearsal, originally made for television, pares away all artifice to examine both the allure and the cost of a life in the theater.

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https://nitro.download/view/493B6B86D263A4F/Ingmar_Bergman_-_(1984)_After_the_Rehearsal.mkv

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The post Ingmar Bergman – Efter repetitionen AKA After the Rehearsal (1984) first appeared on Cinema of the World.