Over the past week or so, I’ve had two significant preoccupations on my mind: first and foremost, the wedding this past Saturday of one of my sons, and second, Ingmar Bergman’s 1960 film The Virgin Spring, which I reviewed a few days ago on my Criterion Reflections blog. Kind of an odd juxtaposition, it turns out, with a very happy and celebratory event competing (and easily winning, in the big scheme of things) with a Bergman movie that’s as depressive as it is impressive on so many levels. So to continue with the Bergman theme, and perhaps to take a sobering look at the “for worse” commitments that accompany marriage vows, for this week’s installment of my Journey Through the Eclipse Series, I’ve chosen Thirst, another Bergman flick, shot ten years prior to The Virgin Spring. It’s from the set that started this whole Criterion subsidiary line,...
- 8/24/2011
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
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