film: saraband (ingmar bergman's final film?)

[onetwothreefour]

so they say that this film, made in 2003 for television (why tv i don't know), will probably be ingmar bergman's last. which is a shame, but at least it'll let him go out on top.

like akira kurosawa's brilliant final film dreams (yume, 1990), saraband is a moving, nuanced and reflective piece, but at the same time it shows all the cinematic qualities that made bergman such a genius. and it's all still there.

i'll write more later, but i seriously suggest everybody see this if they get the chance. it's my pick of the melbourne international film festival so far out of the ten or fifteen that i've seen.

 

[Sn2]

Man, I need to see this but I don't even know where the fuck it's showing!

Tell me more! Does it work well with Scenes From a Marriage?

 

[fruitfly]

Who knows, he announced his retirement back in 1982 but continued working anyway! We may be able to squeeze a few more years out of him yet ...