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What a beautiful face I have found in this place that is circling all round the sun. What a beautiful dream that could flash on the screen in a blink of an eye and be gone from me. Let me hold it close and keep it here with me. And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young, let us lay in the sun and LIST every beautiful thing we see.

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  • Bergman island documentary (2006)
  • Saraband (2003) (TV)
  • Light Keeps me Company documentary (2000)
  • "The Making of 'Fanny and Alexander'" (1986)
  • "Fanny and Alexander" (1982)
  • Höstsonaten (1978) aka "Autumn Sonata"
  • Face to Face (1976)
  • Scener ur ett äktenskap (1973) aka "Scenes from a Marriage"
  • Viskningar och rop (1972) aka "Cries and Whispers"
  • En passion (1969) aka "The Passion of Anna"
  • Skammen (1968) aka "Shame"
  • Vargtimmen (1968) aka "Hour of the Wolf"
  • Persona (1966)
  • Tystnaden (1963) aka "The Silence"
  • Ett drömspel (1963) (TV) aka "A Dream Play"
  • Nattvardsgästerna (1962) aka "Winter Light"
  • Såsom i en spegel (1961) aka "Through a Glass Darkly"
  • Jungfrukällan (1960) aka "The Virgin Spring"
  • Ansiktet (1958) aka "The Magician"
  • Smultronstället (1957) aka "Wild Strawberries"
  • Det sjunde inseglet (1957) aka "The Seventh Seal"
  • Bakomfilm smultronstället (1957)
  • Sommarnattens leende (1955) aka "Smiles of a Summer Night"
  • En lektion i kärlek (1954) aka "A Lesson in Love"
  • Sommarlek (1951) "Illicit Interlude"
  • Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
  • Till glädje (1950) "To Joy"
  • Törst (1949) aka "Thirst"
  • Hamnstad(1948) "Port of Call"
  • Kris (1946) aka "Crisis"
  • Torment (1946)

Fanny & Alexander:

  • My dear friends. I am more moved than I can say. My wisdom is simple. There are those who despise it, but I don't give a damn. Forgive me mama, I noticed you raised your right eyebrow. You think your son is talking too much. Don't worry. I will be brief. Therefore, and consequently, we Ekdahls have not come into the world to see through it. Never think that. We are not equipped for such excursions. We might just as well ignore the big things. We must live in a little world. We will be content with that and cultivate it and make the best of it. Suddenly death strikes. Suddenly the abyss opens. Suddenly the storm howls and disaster is upon us. All that we know! But let us not think of all the unpleasantness. We Ekdahls love our subterfuges. Rob a man of his subterfuges and he goes mad and begins lashing out. Damn it people must people must me intelligible. Otherwise we don't dare to love them or speak ill of them. We must be able to grasp the world and reality so we complain of their monotony with a clear conscience. Don't be sad dear splendid artists. Actors and actresses, we need you all the same. It is you who must give us our supernatural shivers, or better yet, our inner most diversions. The world is a den of thieves and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog. The poison affects us all, us Ekdahls and everyone else. No one escapes, not even our children. So it shall be. Therefore let us be happy while we are happy. Let us be kind, generous, affectionate and good. It is necessary, and not at all shameful, to take pleasure in the little world. Good food, gentle smiles, fruit trees in bloom, waltzes. My dearest friends I am done talking and you can take it as you like. The sentimental ramblings of an uneducated restaurateur or the pitiful babbling of an old man. I don't care. [picks up baby] I hold a little empress in my arms. It's tangible yet immeasurable. One say she will prove everything I just said wrong. One day she will not only rule the little world, but everything….everything.
  • Everything's getting worse. Worse people, worse machines, worse wars... and worse weather. I'm glad I'll soon be dead.
may 21 2010 ∞
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