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* OneOfUs: Bergman was a huge movie buff and contrary to many people's beliefs he actually really liked mass popular culture. He was a huge fan of Golden Age Hollywood, B-Movies, action films, westerns and later on really loved Film/JurassicPark in general. Bergman was also quite happy that Creator/RogerCorman distributed ''Film/CriesAndWhispers'' and he loved the fact that his films were popular in the States. [[invoked]]
* SequelGap: A whole '''forty years''' between ''Scenes From a Marriage'' (1973) and ''Saraband'' (2003). The gap is a major PlotPoint in ''Saraband''. [[invoked]]
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Ingmar Bergman (1918 – 2007) was a [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] director, regarded as one of the true greats in the history of film. Between writing, directing, and producing, he was nominated for thirteen UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, winning for Best Foreign Film three times: ''The Virgin Spring'' (1960, the inspiration for the American ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''), ''Through a Glass Darkly'' (1961), and ''Fanny and Alexander'' (1983). Another of his famous films is ''The Seventh Seal'', a TropeCodifier for ChessWithDeath.

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Ernst Ingmar Bergman (1918 (14 July 1918 30 July 2007) was a [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] director, regarded as one of the true greats in the history of film. Between writing, directing, and producing, he was nominated for thirteen UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, winning for Best Foreign Film three times: ''The Virgin Spring'' (1960, the inspiration for the American ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''), ''Through a Glass Darkly'' (1961), and ''Fanny and Alexander'' (1983). Another of his famous films is ''The Seventh Seal'', a TropeCodifier for ChessWithDeath.

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* CrapsackWorld: Bergman's work is associated with drama about life and death.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Black-and-white is used to great effect in his work.

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* CrapsackWorld: Bergman's work is associated with drama about life and death. ''Skammen'' was especially notable for being set in an unnamed war torn nation showing what war does to people and human relations.
* CrisisOfFaith: He made an entire trilogy about "the Silence of God" and it crops up in a lot of his movies. He was raised in a family of Lutheran priests and had a difficult relationship with his father. He eventually did become an atheist and in his view the movie ''The Silence'' was the point where he stopped asking everyone HaveYouSeenMyGod and religion, while still a part in his films, stopped being as prominent in his later films.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Black-and-white is used to great effect in his work. He came to colour film later than other European film-makers and only used it sporadically, making exclusively colour films only in TheSeventies and TheEighties.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Creator/AndreiTarkovsky or Creator/AsgharFarhadi. Creator/WoodyAllen is also a huge fan and has made a homage to Bergman's work several times: Film/{{Interiors}}, Film/ShadowsAndFog,...

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* SpiritualSuccessor: Creator/AndreiTarkovsky or Creator/AsgharFarhadi. Creator/WoodyAllen is also a huge fan and has made a homage to Bergman's work several times: Film/{{Interiors}}, Film/ShadowsAndFog,...
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* {{Dramedy}}: Although he is best known for his existential dramas, Bergman is surprisingly good at getting laughs, even making some outright comedies. Even some of his dower pictures, like ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'' have some laugh-out-loud moments.

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* {{Dramedy}}: Although he is best known for his existential dramas, Bergman is surprisingly good at getting laughs, even making some outright comedies. Even some of his dower most dour pictures, like ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'' have some laugh-out-loud moments.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Creator/AndreiTarkovsky or Asghar Farhadi. Creator/WoodyAllen is also a huge fan and has made a homage to Bergman's work several times: Film/{{Interiors}}, Film/ShadowsAndFog,...

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* SpiritualSuccessor: Creator/AndreiTarkovsky or Asghar Farhadi.Creator/AsgharFarhadi. Creator/WoodyAllen is also a huge fan and has made a homage to Bergman's work several times: Film/{{Interiors}}, Film/ShadowsAndFog,...
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Creator/AndreiTarkovsky. Creator/WoodyAllen is also a huge fan and has made a homage to Bergman's work several times: Film/{{Interiors}}, Film/ShadowsAndFog,...

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* SpiritualSuccessor: Creator/AndreiTarkovsky.Creator/AndreiTarkovsky or Asghar Farhadi. Creator/WoodyAllen is also a huge fan and has made a homage to Bergman's work several times: Film/{{Interiors}}, Film/ShadowsAndFog,...
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My god, no. Lars von Trier is not, and will never be, Bergman's "sucessor" of any kind. Included a more relatable one.


* SpiritualSuccessor: Creator/LarsVonTrier. Creator/WoodyAllen is also a huge fan and has made a homage to Bergman's work several times: Film/{{Interiors}}, Film/ShadowsAndFog,...

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* SpiritualSuccessor: Creator/LarsVonTrier.Creator/AndreiTarkovsky. Creator/WoodyAllen is also a huge fan and has made a homage to Bergman's work several times: Film/{{Interiors}}, Film/ShadowsAndFog,...
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* SequelGap: A whole '''forty years''' between ''Scenes From a Marriage'' (1973) and ''Saraband'' (2003). The gap is a major PlotPoint in ''Saraband''.
* ShallowParody: Creator/IngmarBergman parodies are usually just spoofing the Death playing chess scene from ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'' and the two women in extreme close-up talking to each other while not looking each other straight in the face from ''Film/{{Persona}}''. It's such a PopCulturalOsmosis that most parodists haven't even seen the entirety of these films and just keep basing their LeFilmArtistique spoofs on these two scenes.
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'''Ingmar Bergman''' (1918 – 2007) was a [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] director, regarded as one of the true greats in the history of film. Between writing, directing, and producing, he was nominated for thirteen UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, winning for Best Foreign Film three times: ''The Virgin Spring'' (1960, the inspiration for the American ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''), ''Through a Glass Darkly'' (1961), and ''Fanny and Alexander'' (1983). Another of his famous films is ''The Seventh Seal'', a TropeCodifier for ChessWithDeath.

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'''Ingmar Bergman''' Ingmar Bergman (1918 – 2007) was a [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] director, regarded as one of the true greats in the history of film. Between writing, directing, and producing, he was nominated for thirteen UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, winning for Best Foreign Film three times: ''The Virgin Spring'' (1960, the inspiration for the American ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''), ''Through a Glass Darkly'' (1961), and ''Fanny and Alexander'' (1983). Another of his famous films is ''The Seventh Seal'', a TropeCodifier for ChessWithDeath.
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His films have a reputation for being gloomy and surrealistic. Although he generally tells identifiable "stories," [[LeFilmArtistique straightforward plot descriptions will rarely give any real indication of what his movies are "about"]]: even criticism of his works tends to sound like psychobabble. Bergman himself even stated that he didn't so much care if the audience understood what he was going for, [[EmotionalTorque as long as they felt something]]. Despite being (rather unjustly) a poster child for TrueArtIsIncomprehensible, the list of filmmakers who regard him as being among the best directors ever is long, including Creator/WoodyAllen, Creator/StanleyKubrick, Creator/MartinScorsese, Creator/StevenSpielberg, Creator/AngLee and Creator/FrancisFordCoppola. There's a reason so many of his films have been released in America by Creator/TheCriterionCollection. However, it should be noted that in his lifetime Bergman's films were generally box-office successes, not only in Sweden and Europe, but also in America. His film ''Scenes from a Marriage'' was the most popular TV show of its age and according to legend was a cause for a spike in divorce rates after the film's release. ''Cries and Whispers'' was likewise released in America by none other than Creator/RogerCorman who managed to distribute it so well that it became a box-office there. He was pretty much a household name in TheSixties and TheSeventies across the world.

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His films have a reputation for being gloomy and surrealistic. Although he generally tells identifiable "stories," [[LeFilmArtistique straightforward plot descriptions will rarely give any real indication of what his movies are "about"]]: even criticism of his works tends to sound like psychobabble. Bergman himself even stated that he didn't so much care if the audience understood what he was going for, [[EmotionalTorque as long as they felt something]]. Despite being (rather unjustly) a poster child for TrueArtIsIncomprehensible, the list of filmmakers who regard him as being among the best directors ever is long, including Creator/WoodyAllen, Creator/StanleyKubrick, Creator/MartinScorsese, Creator/StevenSpielberg, Creator/AngLee and Creator/FrancisFordCoppola. There's a reason so many of his films have been released in America by Creator/TheCriterionCollection. However, it should be noted that in his lifetime Bergman's films were generally box-office successes, not only in Sweden and Europe, but also in America. His film ''Scenes from a Marriage'' was the most popular TV show of its age and according to legend was a cause for a spike in divorce rates after the film's release. ''Cries and Whispers'' was likewise released in America by none other than Creator/RogerCorman who managed to distribute it so well that it became a box-office success there. He was pretty much a household name in TheSixties and TheSeventies across the world.
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* Music/{{Sparks}}: ''The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman'', a musical written for Swedish radio about Bergman getting swept into his own personal Hollywood nightmare after the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

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* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000:'' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pGZbfNADNs A Joke By Ingmar Bergman]]"

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* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000:'' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pGZbfNADNs A Joke By Ingmar Bergman]]"Bergman]]"
* Music/{{Sparks}}: ''The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman'', a musical written for Swedish radio about Bergman getting swept into his own personal Hollywood nightmare after the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

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