More on the new Bergman set, from Richard Brody of the New Yorker.
To Life Ingmar Bergman, the cinema's favorite poet of misery, struggled endlessly with the aftereffects of his harsh religious upbringing. But he was also fond of struggling with family, friends, lovers, colleagues, and himself, and the films in a new boxed set, "Early Bergman" (Criterion Eclipse), show the anguish that was present in his films from the start.
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