The Virgin Spring - Criterion Collection

The Virgin Spring - Criterion Collection
by Ingmar Bergman

The Virgin Spring - Criterion Collection
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Actor: Axel D?berg, Birgitta Pettersson, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Max von Sydow
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Brand: Virgin
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
Producer: Ingmar Bergman
Editor: Oscar Rosander
Producer: Allan Ekelund
Writer: Ulla Isaksson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: German (Original Language); Swedish (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion

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Movie Review: not for the weak of belly
Summary: 5 Stars

Never been a great fan of Bergman's films. Have looked at about a dozen of them over the years and this is about the only one that grabbed me.
Usually this guy's touchy-feely B.S. either puts me to sleep or else I get a strong urge to throw things at the screen.

So, yeah, see this one. But I'd say Last House On The Left (directed by Wes Craven) is just as strong and gut-churning, if not stronger. The only thing that is hard to take is the absolutely moronic and UNFUNNY keystone cops segment that takes place between all the wrenching mayhem.

Hey, Wes, people who love and respect horror DO NOT WANT TO SEE
ANYTHING BLATANTLY FUNNY TAKE PLACE BETWEEN THE HEAVY AND SERIOUS ACTION. Get it?
Sutle, dark humor (as in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre) is acceptable...but nothing beyond that--unless you're doing UBER CRAP
like Scream #36 (for the bucks...that you grubbers can't seem to get enough of, no matter how much you take in.)
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Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 01/24/2006
Made in 1960 and set in medieval Sweden, Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring is based on a folk ballad. It also examines a society in transition from Norse pantheism to Christianity. The film starkly contrasts Ingeri--a dark, feral, Odin-worshipping foster daughter to a Christian family headed by Max Von Sydow--and their own daughter, a pretty and blond but also vain and na?ve girl named Karin, whom Ingeri resents. They travel out together to a distant church where Karin is to offer votive candles to the Virgin Mary. However, en route, Karin is raped and murdered by two desperate goatherds, accompanied by a 13-year-old boy. By coincidence, the goatherds then seek refuge with Karin's parents and even try to sell them her clothes, which proves to be a mortal error.

Bergman was greatly influenced by Akira Kurosawa when he made The Virgin Spring, as evinced in its ominous use of dark and shade and lengthy sequences without dialogue. However, this is more than pastiche. Although the Christian ending with which Bergman feels obliged to conclude the film doesn't quite sit well in a movie in which God is as palpably absent as in any Bergman movie, the slow, remorseless pace of the murder and subsequent retribution bring to mind Krzysztof Kieslowski's A Short Film About Killing in their sense of the futility of vengeance. --David Stubbs

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