I keep reminding myself of this, but end up not going; I’ve been saying I’ll go since early January. Ah, time flies.

Anyway, Bergman seems to be one of those directors that performed best in their earlier works. (Okay okay, that happens with most people, but that’s not really what I meant)

From the few movies of his I’ve seen, it is my impression that he would like to be much more profound and rebellious in his works, but was too restricted by the much more conservative society and movie making of the 50s, as opposed to the much more liberal and pleonastic society of the later decades and today. I can’t seem to avoid relating his restrained, but magnificent filmmaking in the ‘Smultronstället’ (1957), as opposed to the explicit and (rather) pointless photography of, say, “Aus dem Leben der Marionetten” (1980). Well, hopefully I’ll find something good in the NFT this week.