Customer Reviews (1)

Near-miss
Well...

On the plus side, the writer's had first-hand experience: he's a respected film-maker in his own right; he's worked with - gasp - IB himself, e.g. on 'Fanny and Alexander; and he's married to IB semi-regular Gunnel Lindblom. And I like the way this book concentrates on the work itself, not a load of goosip about IB's life and how it might (not) influence the films... PLUS it's really useful for those obscure early films we're all dying to see... AND the writer talks not only about the content of the scripts (which we can read for ourselves anyway) but also the techniques used to transfer the 'personal vision' to the screen...

So why am I only half-convinced?

Well... it's basically a problem of style. Maybe it's the translation, but the sentences are all jerky and one generalisation contradicts another and... Also, this book was written in the 60's, so it cuts off at (yawn) 'About all these Women', before the classics 'Persona' and 'Cries and Whispers'...

For a really well-written, rounded picture, stick with Peter Cowie's 'IB: A personal and Critical Portrait'. ... Read more

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