Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
(Gycklarnas Afton)
Country: SV
Technical: bw 95m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Harriet Andersson, Ake Grönberg, Hasse Ekman
Synopsis:
A travelling circus owner is told the tale of one their number, humiliated by his wife's wantonness and ruined by his fidelity. The troupe arrive in his home town, where he throws himself on the mercy of his estranged wife and his mistress, feeling neglected and ambitious, is willingly abused by an actor.
Review:
Scenes are premonitory of The Seventh Seal and The Magician. Bergman is interested in the relationship between the performer and his audience, but even more in that between performer and boss. The actors are arrogant and derisory, and frankly poor; the circus artistes have a Felliniesque dignity, but the ringmaster confounds truth and illusion in the climactic scene and is brought low. He then shoots the bear (ailing mascot?) and the troupe moves on. It's not one of the director's most satisfying works but contains sequences of uncanny power and Harriet Andersson at her most delectable.
(Gycklarnas Afton)
Country: SV
Technical: bw 95m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Harriet Andersson, Ake Grönberg, Hasse Ekman
Synopsis:
A travelling circus owner is told the tale of one their number, humiliated by his wife's wantonness and ruined by his fidelity. The troupe arrive in his home town, where he throws himself on the mercy of his estranged wife and his mistress, feeling neglected and ambitious, is willingly abused by an actor.
Review:
Scenes are premonitory of The Seventh Seal and The Magician. Bergman is interested in the relationship between the performer and his audience, but even more in that between performer and boss. The actors are arrogant and derisory, and frankly poor; the circus artistes have a Felliniesque dignity, but the ringmaster confounds truth and illusion in the climactic scene and is brought low. He then shoots the bear (ailing mascot?) and the troupe moves on. It's not one of the director's most satisfying works but contains sequences of uncanny power and Harriet Andersson at her most delectable.
(Gycklarnas Afton)
Country: SV
Technical: bw 95m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Harriet Andersson, Ake Grönberg, Hasse Ekman
Synopsis:
A travelling circus owner is told the tale of one their number, humiliated by his wife's wantonness and ruined by his fidelity. The troupe arrive in his home town, where he throws himself on the mercy of his estranged wife and his mistress, feeling neglected and ambitious, is willingly abused by an actor.
Review:
Scenes are premonitory of The Seventh Seal and The Magician. Bergman is interested in the relationship between the performer and his audience, but even more in that between performer and boss. The actors are arrogant and derisory, and frankly poor; the circus artistes have a Felliniesque dignity, but the ringmaster confounds truth and illusion in the climactic scene and is brought low. He then shoots the bear (ailing mascot?) and the troupe moves on. It's not one of the director's most satisfying works but contains sequences of uncanny power and Harriet Andersson at her most delectable.