Fårö dokument

Very straightforward documentary by Bergman, mixing long takes of the island he made his home (take a bow as usual, Sven Nykvist) with long, gritty b/w interviews with its inhabitants about trying to keep a reasonable life going in a dwindling community far from the infrastructure of modernity.

Effective documentary on the politics of locality for a small island community faced with the effects of industrialisation and the inadequacies of Swedish bureaucratic democracy. In The Magic Lantern, Bergman says he moved there, among other reasons, to "retreat from the world, read the books I hadn't read, meditate, cleanse my soul. (After a month or two I was hopelessly involved in the islanders' problems, something which resulted in the 1969 FÅRÖ DOCUMENT.)"

Mês especial do centenário de Ingmar Bergman filme #23 Esse é o Man of Aran do Bergman em seu habitat natural, daria nota maior se não fosse a excruciante cena de morte e eviceração de um carneiro. Rip MakingOff