The Mirrors of Ingmar Bergman, Narrated with the Poetry of Sylvia Plath

The Mirrors of Ingmar Bergman, Narrated with the Poetry of Sylvia Plath The Mirrors of Ingmar Bergman, Narrated with the Poetry of Sylvia Plath Kagonada, the video-writer behind the true to life supercuts of Kubrick's One-Point Perspective and Ozu's Paths comes back with a glance at mirrors in the movies of Ingmar Bergman, set to a sad Vivaldi work for two mandolins, and a perusing of Sylvia Plath's Mirror. Mirrors and reflections turn up directly in the start of Bergman's movies as a theme, when Jenny, the moderately aged hero of Crisis shouts to her picture, You can't see all things considered, however underneath this face ... goodness, my God! Mirrors show their watchers a genuine face behind the cover in his movies, mortality, disappointment, trickery - everything counterfeit stripped away. It's an opportunity to assess the situation and a chance to separate. It's very flawless, this cut, with Plath's portrayal of her divider pink, with dots coordinating the shading shot from Fanny Alexander; or Appearances and dimness separate us again and again as Nine-Christine Jönsson draws a frowny face and expresses forlorn on her appearance from Port of Call. The video is likewise a tribute to Bergman's preferred on-screen characters, from Harriet Andersson to Liv Ullmann. By chance, Sylvia Plath was not only an aficionado of the movie producer, she based her sonnet Three Women on Bergman's film So Close to Life (otherwise known as Brink of Life) which she had found in a London film in either 1961 or 1962. Okay prefer to help the crucial Open Culture? Please consider making a gift to our site. It's difficult to depend 100% on promotions, and your commitments will assist us with continueing giving the best free social and instructive materials to students all over. Likewise consider following Open Culture on Facebook and Twitter and sharing clever media with your companions. Or then again pursue our every day email and get a day by day portion of Open Culture in your inbox. Related Content: Ingmar Bergman's Soap Commercials Wash Away the Existential Despair Ingmar Bergman Visits The Dick Cavett Show, 1971 Hear Sylvia Plath Read 15 Poems From Her Final Collection, Ariel Woman Lazarus: Watch an Experimental Film Spoken by Sylvia Plath Ted Mills is an independent author on expressions of the human experience who at present has the FunkZone Podcast. You can likewise tail him on Twitter at @tedmills and additionally watch his movies here.