Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema

This sensuous, sprawling epic, which Ingmar Bergman intended to be his swan song, offers an effortless summing up of the themes—among them family, identity, and mortality—he'd spent a career exploring.

In two made-for-television productions, a middle-aged Ingmar Bergman blurred the boundaries between screen and stage.

Critically maligned upon their release, Ingmar Bergman’s only two English-language films show the master’s artistry at its most restrained and its most convoluted.

Separated by more than a decade in Ingmar Bergman’s filmography, these two formally masterful dramas uncover the ugliness of male aggression and brutality.

Two early works by Ingmar Bergman show the Swedish master grappling with the conventions of melodrama, which would go on to influence his later explorations of spiritual torment.

With uncharacteristic warmth and affection for human frailty, Ingmar Bergman raises the question of how love can possibly last forever.