Bergman speaks about Antonioni

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Couldn't resist posting this a few days after the world lost two of its great cineastes, Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni. In an interview conducted in 2002, Bergman brought up Antonioni when speaking about the new films he was seeing in the local cinema on Faro, the island he lived on.

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[maneatingseas]

I am shocked to hear him talk lightly of the great genius that is Antonioni. Then why quote him?

[andynm123]

there is nothing that art MUST be, the only question is if it works for you or not.

[MrRazorblade999]

The importance of "messages" or a meaningful idealistic approach in films are way overrated. There is absolutely no need for such distractions.

[blaiserfilms]

@jujunanino what? they arent even close to the most technical... and how can you not like bergman?? antonioni is great but it is godard who is overrated..

[LSJShez]

@clockworkscott I don't think it's really a nationality thing. Coincidental might have been a better way of putting it.

[clockworkscott]

@LSJShez i noticed that as well. two great filmmakers dying on the same day isn't irony, but if you noticed the rest of his post is garbage as well. i assume he's american, since we are notorious for not understanding what irony is. this is reflected rather well in alanis morrisette's song "ironic", which lists a bunch of examples of things that are ironic, none of them really being so, e.g. rain on your wedding day.

[LSJShez]

How is two great filmmakers dying on the same day ironic?

[Vittoriocacciatore]

Bergman and Antonioni died the same they, two genius with a particular sensibility, thanks forever!

[clemdane]

@ewlalah It's the perfect way of putting it.

[dcasey77]

@pevainer Right...

[pevainer]

@dcasey77 I think Bergman means he is not a functionary: that Antonioni does not cling to technique. He is not in service of the câmera, but the other way round.

[mandolinroad]

@MyName42 Michael Bay? Of course he's not, he's talking about swedish directors.