Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Autumn Sonata, Ingmar Bergman


I worried that you wouldn't like my appearance.
I was ugly.
Skinny and angular, with big, round eyes and fat lips.
No eyebrows.
My arms were too thin and my feet too big.
I thought I looked disgusting.
Once you said, "You should have been a boy."
Then you laughed, so I wouldn't be upset. But I was, of course.

from Autumn Sonata, Ingmar Bergman

P.S. Bergman has a way of finding the universal - pain - in any relationship, but also the universal beauty.

P.P.S. I believe this was the only time Liv Ullmann and Ingrid Bergman worked together, and certainly the only time that Ingrid worked with Ingmar Bermgan.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

oh! i haven't this film till the end...(now i must!). i wonder why she never worked with ingmar bergman before? was it because she was considered a commercial actor??

RD said...

Not sure why they didn't work together... Wonderful to hear Ingrid B in Swedish! bb

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