Ingmar Bergman Interview (1/6): Life, Death, and Love

1999 Swedish TV Interview with Ingmar Bergman and actor Erland Josephson. Journalist is Malou von Sivers. Courtesy of TV4 International.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• ingmar
• bergman
• interview
• erland
• josephson
• life
• death
• love
• cries
• and
• whispers

[narcissusintl]

Yeah. Yeah.  Life, death, God, whatever. Any college student comes up with those questions but what about his crazy teeth? Why are they so bad? No good dentists in Denmark? That's the deeper question. Lots of geniuses can make a good movie but good teeth are hard to find. You can make history and yet no one bothered to help him with his teeth. It's a shame and some sort of poetic example of the life of artists overall. See Woody Allen's hair and think about it...That's all I'm saying.

[ZachariahJambalaya]

@narcissusintl

ok. do you usually just watch interviews for the questions? it might help if you listen to the responses.

and this whole teeth thing, your joke is lame. your favorite woody allen movie is probably vicky christina barcelona.

[narcissusintl]

An intellectual...a genius...Yawn. Now I know why he didn't give many interviews. Couldn't he get his teeth fixed?

[ZachariahJambalaya]

@narcissusintl

no one forced you to watch this

[wintersnowman]

i see that no one has thanked you yet for putting this incredible interview of two great artists up so sincerely, thank you very much

[ZachariahJambalaya]

@wintersnowman well thank you. i was afraid no one would have the patience to watch them

[kanudoss]

Their sincere reflections moved me deeply. Rare honesty and vulnerability. So human, so deep.

[SoleFireFilms]

thanks muchly for these!!!! The master!

[davidowenjames]

Can anyone tell me what production he is working on at the start?

[IngmarMountman]

@ZachariahJambalaya

Narcissus has a point. I think what he wants to say lies in this quote:

"For me, making a film is a million dirty filthy hotel rooms that need to be fixed up. They all have to be painted, rearranged, rebuilt. It has to be carefully planned out. Planned and planned and replanned. They all have to be gutted. Gutted and gutted and[...]. Until they are all perfect. And then you look much older and you have no friends and [...] I'am a sad, old, lonely person now. Are you happy ?"

[Emraldinho]

one of the godfathers of modern film.

[roflmaodue]

@narcissusintl Fool.

[coercingcoexistence]

@ZachariahJambalaya Don't feed the trolls, man.

Thanks for sharing this.

[KillCanPsycho]

@narcissusintl he is Swedish btw