26 April, 2011 10:38

More guests to the Bergman Week!

Andrei Zvyagintsev whose directorial debut The Return swept the film world off its feet is a guest at this year’s Bergman Week. The Bergman Lecture is held by Hungarian Academy Award winner István Szabó. In addition, we continue our popular screenings in Bergman’s private cinema. A previously never screened Bergman film and the rarely seen TV series Face to Face are also included in this summer’s programme.

Andrei Zvyagintsev’s The Return won a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. ”A truly astonishing debut, a most enigmatic pictorial tale” was Ingmar Bergman’s opinion of the film. In Zvyagintsev’s talk on Fårö he will speak about his new film Elena, about the art of not revealing too much – as well as the influence that Bergman’s films has exerted on his own filmmaking.

With the films in ”the trilogy of evil” – all Academy Award nominated – István Szabó became a household name on the international film arena and regarded as one of the most important European filmmakers. Szabó is jointly invited by the Bergman Center and the Bergman Estate to deliver a Bergman Lecture, where he among other topics will speak about how he and Bergman founded the European Film Academy.

This year’s Master Class is held by cinematographer Manuel Alberto Claro whose latest film Melancholia by Lars von Trier is screened at the Bergman Week. He will talk about working with von Trier and about the particular challenges you face as an aesthetically aware cinematographer when you are instructed to create “ugly shots” – all the while making a beautiful rendition of the end of the world!

Bergman Exclusive! We present the film Karlebo for the first time ever, a film where Ingmar Bergman interviews his father-in-law – 85-year-old industrialist Selim Karlebo. Furthermore we’re screening the TV series Face to Face starring Liv Ullmann as a suicidal psychiatrist – only screened once since the premiere in 1976!

Swedish Television is producing a new film program, Bergman’s Video, taking as a point of departure Ingmar Bergman’s vast VHS collection. The team behind the program have chosen and will present three films from Bergman’s videotheque that will screen in Bergman’s own cinema.

See the entire programme at www.bergmancenter.se/en/bergman-week/programme

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