30.7.2007 20:18
R.I.P.
Pitäisi kyllä kahlata Bergmanin elokuvia enemmän läpi, muutama vain on tullut nähtyä. Mansikkapaikka on kolahtanut nähdyistä parhaiten. Hieno leffa.
Bergmanin kommentteja:
O. Wellesistä: "For me he's just a hoax. It's empty. It's not interesting. It's dead. Citizen Kane, which I have a copy of- is all the critics' darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it's a total bore. Above all, the performances are worthless. The amount of respect that movie's got is absolutely unbelievable."
Godardista: "I've never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt constructed, faux intellectual and completely dead. Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. Godard is a fucking bore. He's made his films for the critics. One of the movies, Masculin, féminin, was shot here in Sweden. It was mind-numbingly boring."
Antonionista: "He's done two masterpieces, you don't have to bother with the rest. One is Blow-Up, which I've seen many times, and the other is La Notte, also a wonderful film, although that's mostly because of the young Jeanne Moreau. In my collection I have a copy of Il Grido, and damn what a boring movie it is. So devilishly sad, I mean. You know, Antonioni never really learned the trade. He concentrated on single images, never realising that film is a rhythmic flow of images, a movement. Sure, there are brilliant moments in his films. But I don't feel anything for L'Avventura, for example. Only indifference. I never understood why Antonioni was so incredibly applauded. And I thought his muse Monica Vitti was a terrible actress."
Seuraava taas Ilta-Sanomien keskustelupalstalta:
Eipä paljoa meikäläistä liikuta, sillä en koskaan oppinut ymärtämään hänen elokuviaan. Todella synkkiä ja masentavia. Fanny ja Aleksander menetteli, mutta siinäkin oli julma pappi. Olin 60-luvulla katsomassa Neitsytlähde ja voin huonosti usean päivän ajan.
Rauha hänen sielulleen.
