Music in Darkness (1948)
(Musik i Mörker)
Country: SV
Technical: bw 87m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Mai Zetterling, Birger Malmsten, Bengt Eklund
Synopsis:
A young soldier is blinded trying to rescue a puppy at a shooting range and, making a living from his piano playing, turns back from the brink of despair and self-pity thanks to the love of a simple peasant girl.
Review:
Possibly taking a leaf or two from Hitch's Spellbound (notice the extraordinarily surreal near-death sequence, which works far less well than Dalí's), Bergman's melodrama is a bit of a wallow but capitalizes on a luminous performance from Zetterling, who is favoured with some magnificent close-ups. Surely one of the few of its director's films to end happily?
(Musik i Mörker)
Country: SV
Technical: bw 87m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Mai Zetterling, Birger Malmsten, Bengt Eklund
Synopsis:
A young soldier is blinded trying to rescue a puppy at a shooting range and, making a living from his piano playing, turns back from the brink of despair and self-pity thanks to the love of a simple peasant girl.
Review:
Possibly taking a leaf or two from Hitch's Spellbound (notice the extraordinarily surreal near-death sequence, which works far less well than Dalí's), Bergman's melodrama is a bit of a wallow but capitalizes on a luminous performance from Zetterling, who is favoured with some magnificent close-ups. Surely one of the few of its director's films to end happily?
(Musik i Mörker)
Country: SV
Technical: bw 87m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Mai Zetterling, Birger Malmsten, Bengt Eklund
Synopsis:
A young soldier is blinded trying to rescue a puppy at a shooting range and, making a living from his piano playing, turns back from the brink of despair and self-pity thanks to the love of a simple peasant girl.
Review:
Possibly taking a leaf or two from Hitch's Spellbound (notice the extraordinarily surreal near-death sequence, which works far less well than Dalí's), Bergman's melodrama is a bit of a wallow but capitalizes on a luminous performance from Zetterling, who is favoured with some magnificent close-ups. Surely one of the few of its director's films to end happily?