Bergman made "Hour of the Wolf" in 1968 and it's one of his most
personal films. It also verges on a parody of what we expect a Bergman
film to be, being a typically dark and forbidding study of the artist
destroyed by his own demons. Moving between a conventional horror film
and a wholly individualistic study of madness it's not in the front rank
of Bergman pictures yet it is still quite remarkable and is head and
shoulders above anything a lesser director might have turned out. As the
artist losing his sanity and the wife barely able to cope both Max von
Sydow and Liv Ullmann are superb while the luminous black and white
cinematography is by Bergman regular Sven Nykvist.
Saturday 20 October 2018
HOUR OF THE WOLF **
Bergman made "Hour of the Wolf" in 1968 and it's one of his most
personal films. It also verges on a parody of what we expect a Bergman
film to be, being a typically dark and forbidding study of the artist
destroyed by his own demons. Moving between a conventional horror film
and a wholly individualistic study of madness it's not in the front rank
of Bergman pictures yet it is still quite remarkable and is head and
shoulders above anything a lesser director might have turned out. As the
artist losing his sanity and the wife barely able to cope both Max von
Sydow and Liv Ullmann are superb while the luminous black and white
cinematography is by Bergman regular Sven Nykvist.
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