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INGMAR BERGMAN'S LEGACY
OPINION
JOÃO LOPES
Current cinema/television began in the eminent television field of music
relations and, in particular, videos. In any case, let's remember an event
cinema/streaming often that happened half a century ago: on a symbolic
appear as a debate about level, there aren't many contemporary products
forms of production and whose impact can be compared to Bergman's
dissemination. Hence, some «Scenes from a Marriage», with Liv Ullmann
schematic questions that and Erland Josephson, which premiered on
we formulate For example, Sweden's public television channel in 1973.
what would it be like if Martin Scorsese's new
film, «Killers of the Flower Moon», wasn't The fabulous portrait of a couple's intimacy
shown in the darkness of a movie theatre? Or even existed as a hybrid object in which all
again, does it make sense not to show Pablo the differences seemed to exist in an equally
Larraín's «El Conde» in these theatres? seductive way: it was a series of six episodes and
also a feature film released in cinemas (the film
There was a time when these relationships, while arrived in Portuguese cinemas in 1976).
not as dramatic, were above all more genuine
because they were more linked to creative His offspring are, in fact, plural: first, in
choices and not necessarily contaminated «Husbands and Wives» (1992), Woody Allen's
by the wars of the film trade. After the "new film that explores a narrative device inspired
waves" of the 1960s, directors such as Jean-Luc by «Scenes from a Marriage»; then, in the
Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Ingmar brilliant new version of Bergman's series in
Bergman were even able to see television as a 2021, created by Hagai Levi for HBO Max, with
complementary form of creation. Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac as the central
pair. The least that can be said is that Bergman's
Of course, there are still authors who are no legacy is detached from any automatic
strangers to such dynamics. To take one of opposition between different screens. Why is
the most obvious and admirable examples, that? Undoubtedly because his language knows
let's remember David Fincher's career, which how to adapt to any screen.
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