Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema may be exhaustive, but with all the indelible beauty it contains, it’s never exhausting.
This superb edition of the film is lacking only a commentary by legendary Bergman fanboy Woody Allen, but let’s get real.
The plaintive harmonium chords in the non-experimental soundtrack seem to symphonicize Holm’s plight with regional specificity.
The crosscutting between the sailor’s rowboat and the sailors at a British frigate in A Man There Was is far removed from the static setups of this early social drama.
The archaic English used in the title cards gives the picture a twee quality surely not intended in Ibsen’s original verses.
Victor Sjöström’s film is a tale of redemption played out against the vast expenses of nature.
A solid pair of Nordic journeys from one of cinema’s earliest builders.
Nature gives and nature takes away in Sjöström’s pantheistic classic.