![]() ![]() Ambitious in scope yet sensitively wrought, The Magic Lantern is a window to the mind of one of our era's great geniuses. Throughout, Bergman recounts his life in a series of deeply personal flashbacks that document some of the most important moments in twentieth-century filmmaking as well as the private obsessions of the man behind them. ![]() The director famously suffered from a range of physical ailments throughout his life, and these were further exacerbated by Bergman’s constant anxiety, stress, and self-criticism. More grand mosaic than linear account, Bergman's vignettes trace his life from a rural Swedish childhood through his work in theater to Hollywood's golden age, and a tumultuous romantic history that includes five wives and more than a few mistresses. The pain and discomfort of the human condition is a key theme in The Magic Lantern, as it is with many Bergman films. At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that dizzy sense of magic of my childhood." Bergman, who has conveyed this heady sense of wonder and vision to moviegoers for decades, traces his lifelong love affair with film in his breathtakingly visual autobiography, The Magic Lantern. Παρουσίαση"When a film is not a document, it is a dream. ![]()
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