A limestone cliff in a nature preserve on Gotland’s west coast, Hogklint. Christine Small
A limestone cliff in a nature preserve on Gotland’s west coast, Hogklint. Christine Smallwood at The New York Times: Ingmar Bergman moved to Faro [Gotland’s miniature neighbor island] in 1967. A photo of him was taken at Langhammars in 1976. Behind him, the sea stacks appear funereal and grim, far gloomier than they do in person. You may have seen the rauks in his films: they are the backdrop to Liv Ullmann and Bibi Andersson’s mutually infecting madness in “Persona.” Bergman is said to have enjoyed the solitude of living on Faro, but his films — for all their existential torment — are not really about solitude, or even loneliness. They are about the intense pressures and power struggles that are borne in extreme intimacies. His characters may desperately desire to get away from each other, but are not able to do so, any more than any of us can get away from ourselves.Photography Domingo Milella -- source link
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