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Writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s 1953 early Swedish masterwork stars Åke Grönberg as Albert Johansson, the ring-master of a travelling circus, attempting to make peace with his estranged wife Agda, played by Annika Tretow. But Grönberg is […]
Swedish writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s enchanting 1955 bitter-sweet story about couples struggling to sort out their complicated romances at a weekend in the country in late-19th century Sweden makes for a delightful and sympathetic movie. There, the ageing […]
Writer-director director Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) retired from cinema film-making after this stupendous, four Oscar-winning 1982 swansong to the movies. It is a beautiful, endlessly rewarding, masterly and sumptuous family saga, full of telling references to both his […]
Malin Buska, Sarah Gadon, and Michael Nyqvist all give good performances as Queen Kristina of Sweden, her lover the Countess Ebba Sparre and her stalwart Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna. Director Mika Kaurismäki’s 2015 movie retells the same story and […]
Based on the true tale of the real career of Ivar Kreuger and a novelised version of his life by Einar Thorvaldson, directors Howard Bretherton and William Keighley’s little-known, antique 1932 drama is old-style film-making, […]
Swedish writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 world cinema classic traces the spiritual journey of an aged, irascible professor (Victor Sjöström) uncovering his past and present emotional frailties while on a road trip from his home in […]
Rouben Mamoulian’s lush and glossily romantic 1933 film Queen Christina is a jewel in the crown of Greta Garbo, then reigning Queen of Hollywood. ‘I’m tired of being a symbol, Chancellor. I long to […]