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★★★★☆

A solid biography from the English-language Bergman authority.

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p. 267: During the filming of Shame in 1967, Bergman was already contemplating his demise on Fårö: 'When I am dead, I want them to stuff me and put me in the cutting room. That's where I'll sit and nod over the desk with the help of an inserted contraption. The summer tourists will put a Swedish crown in a box to see the marvelous display. The money could go to young film producers. But until then, I just pray to be left in peace in my own home.'

p. 80: 'Liv Ullmann has written, "When the camera is as close as Ingmar's sometimes gets, it doesn't only show a face but also what kind of life this face has seen."'

p. 74: 'No director has torn at his open wounds so insistently as Bergman.'

p. 25: '(Bergman) was by nature a maverick when young, and inevitably that collided with the dogma that informed every aspect of life at home.'

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