Dreams (1955)
(Kvinnodröm)
Country: SV
Technical: bw 87m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand
Synopsis:
A fashion photographer and her model journey to Gothenburg for a shoot, and there each becomes involved in a separate romantic encounter which highlights the need for the human psyche to cling to impossible dreams.
Review:
The brutal honesty with which Bergman's characters speak to each other has by now become a staple, and this lot are pretty cruel. Andersson plays a sweet, simple, but in her own way manipulative young thing, while Dahlbeck is the brutal, cynical, but secretly suffering jiltee, whose greater age underlines her vulnerability. Meanwhile, Björnstrand is somewhat miscast as an 'ugly' older man who generously lavishes presents on Andersson, before his vitriolic daughter turns up to speak a few home truths (archetypal Bergmanesque filial relationship). Technically all good, the opening scene aping Hitchcock in its concentration on a myriad sundry details, but in the end it's just a bit pat.
(Kvinnodröm)
Country: SV
Technical: bw 87m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand
Synopsis:
A fashion photographer and her model journey to Gothenburg for a shoot, and there each becomes involved in a separate romantic encounter which highlights the need for the human psyche to cling to impossible dreams.
Review:
The brutal honesty with which Bergman's characters speak to each other has by now become a staple, and this lot are pretty cruel. Andersson plays a sweet, simple, but in her own way manipulative young thing, while Dahlbeck is the brutal, cynical, but secretly suffering jiltee, whose greater age underlines her vulnerability. Meanwhile, Björnstrand is somewhat miscast as an 'ugly' older man who generously lavishes presents on Andersson, before his vitriolic daughter turns up to speak a few home truths (archetypal Bergmanesque filial relationship). Technically all good, the opening scene aping Hitchcock in its concentration on a myriad sundry details, but in the end it's just a bit pat.
(Kvinnodröm)
Country: SV
Technical: bw 87m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand
Synopsis:
A fashion photographer and her model journey to Gothenburg for a shoot, and there each becomes involved in a separate romantic encounter which highlights the need for the human psyche to cling to impossible dreams.
Review:
The brutal honesty with which Bergman's characters speak to each other has by now become a staple, and this lot are pretty cruel. Andersson plays a sweet, simple, but in her own way manipulative young thing, while Dahlbeck is the brutal, cynical, but secretly suffering jiltee, whose greater age underlines her vulnerability. Meanwhile, Björnstrand is somewhat miscast as an 'ugly' older man who generously lavishes presents on Andersson, before his vitriolic daughter turns up to speak a few home truths (archetypal Bergmanesque filial relationship). Technically all good, the opening scene aping Hitchcock in its concentration on a myriad sundry details, but in the end it's just a bit pat.