ozu-teapot: Vargtimmen (Hour of the Wolf) | Ingmar Bergman | 1968 “Hour of the Wolf is seen by
ozu-teapot: Vargtimmen (Hour of the Wolf) | Ingmar Bergman | 1968 “Hour of the Wolf is seen by some as a regression after Persona. It isn’t that simple. Persona was a breakthrough, a success that gave me the courage to keep on searching along unknown paths. For several reasons that film has become a more open affair than others, more tangible: a woman who is mute, another who speaks; therefore a conflict. Hour of the Wolf, on the other hand, is more vague. There is within that film a consciously formal and thematic disintegration. When I see Hour of the Wolf today, I understand that it is about a deep-seated division within me, both hidden and carefully monitored, visible in both my earlier and later work: Aman, in The Magician (The Face); Ester, in The Silence; Tomas, in Face to Face; Elisabet, in Persona; Ismael, in Fanny and Alexander. To me, Hour of the Wolf is important since it is an attempt to encircle a hard-to-locate set of problems and get inside them. I dared take a few steps, but I didn’t go the whole way. Had I failed with Persona, I would never have dared to make Hour of the Wolf. Hour of the Wolf is not a regression but an uneasy step in the right direction.”– Ingmar Bergman, Images: My Life in Film -- source link
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