Larmar Och Gör Sig Till / In The Presence Of A Clown (Ingmar Bergman, 1997)
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Dirigida por / Directed by
Ingmar Bergman
Reparto / Cast
Börje Ahlstedt, Marie Richardson, Erland Josephson, Pernilla August,
Anita Björk, Agneta Ekmanner, Lena Endre, Gunnel Fred
Sinopsis: En 1925, Carl Akerblom, un inventor, ingresa en un centro psiquiátrico de Upsala a causa de una violenta crisis nerviosa. Allí, con la colaboración de otros pacientes, se propone rodar la primera película sonora de la historia del cine, que trataría sobre los últimos días de la vida de Schubert. En el hospital recibe la inquietante visita de un ambiguo y extraño payaso.
Synopsis: Resident in a sunny mental ward circa 1925, Carl is surrounded by premonitions of death, from the gramophone playing Schubert's Winterreise, to his hallucinatory visions of a sinister, sexually forthright, white-clad female clown named Rigmor (as in rigor mortis). Despite his situation and his record of psychotic rage, Carl is full of grand plans, and surprisingly proceeds to mount his own version of sound cinema by having actors speak the dialogue mouthed by characters in the silent film he has made. Not everything goes to plan, but like the great last works of Schubert, it's a striking instance of the redemptive power of art in the face of mortality.
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Review: Stephen Holden (New York Times)
[quote]When great filmmakers reach old age, their work tends to grow sparer and more austere, the texture stripped away so that the core themes of a lifetime's output jut out like bones under crumbling flesh. ''In the Presence of a Clown,'' Ingmar Bergman's two-hour 1997 made-for-television movie, is such a film. A gloomy, murky, static work laced with an absurdist gallows humor, it doesn't try very hard to entertain or to look beautiful. But the movie, which the New York Film Festival is screening four times at the Walter Reade Theater today and tomorrow, is still a must-see for Bergman aficionados.
''In the Presence of a Clown'' takes off from a story Mr. Bergman, who is now 80, discovered among the papers left by an uncle who appeared as a main character in his autobiographical films ''Fanny and Alexander'' and ''Best Intentions'' and who is played here, as in those two movies, by Borje Ahlstedt.
Many of the familiar Bergman themes -- the absence of God, the meaninglessness of life, the thin line between sanity and madness, fear and rage at the void -- are restated in the new film, but here the tone is darkly comic. Be warned, however: ''In the Presence of a Clown,'' which is set in the mid-1920's, is not the ''rollicking farce'' the film festival puffery claims. It's quite depressing.
Death, a familiar figure in Bergman films, puts in an appearance, this time in the person of a leering white-faced female clown named Rigmor (read rigor mortis), who first appears to Carl Akerblom (Mr. Ahlstedt), an eccentric inventor, while he is incarcerated in a mental hospital. Within minutes of her appearance, she has bared her chalky breasts and coaxed him to have sex with her. Carl has been hospitalized after trying to kill his young fiancee, Pauline (Marie Richardson). Exactly why he turned on her is never specified except that Carl is subject to inexplicable fits of despairing fury in which he goes temporarily berserk.
When we first meet Carl, he is playing and replaying a scratchy recording of funereal piano music by Schubert, whose death obsesses him. He browbeats his doctor into imagining how the composer must have felt when he discovered a syphilitic chancre. After pondering the question, the doctor bluntly replies that Schubert must have felt ''a sinking feeling.''
''In the Presence of a Clown'' is about how Carl (who appears to be Mr. Bergman's stand-in) deals with that sinking feeling. Upon his discharge from the hospital, he decides to make a movie. Carl boasts of having invented a new cinematic art form, the living talking picture. And the second half of ''In the Presence of a Clown'' follows the making of the film in which actors from behind the screen speak dialogue mouthed by the characters in the silent movie.
The plot of Carl's film is an unwieldy grafting of the story of Schubert's final years to another story told to him by a fellow mental patient about a beautiful 14-year-old countess in the early 1900's who is turned into a high-priced courtesan by her stepfather and becomes a sexual legend while somehow maintaining her technical virginity. In Carl's version, the countess and Schubert have a tragic love affair.
After many production woes, the movie is completed and has its premiere in the village where Carl grew up. But the event, which begins smoothly, turns into a technical fiasco when an electrical explosion threatens to burn down the house. The evening is saved by the actors, who improvise a staged reading by candlelight, and the tiny audience of friends and relatives agree that the reading was better than the movie. (Might this be Mr. Bergman's assertion that when all is said and done, theater is a truer art form than film?)
''In the Presence of a Clown'' opens with that familiar epigraph from ''Macbeth'' about ''sound and fury, signifying nothing,'' which is as pessimistic as any Shakespearean pronouncement. But as you watch Carl suffer hellish mental torments during his final days (the character is 54 but looks much older), his perseverance in the realization of his cinematic dream acquires a certain nobility. The movie within a movie even suggests that ''In the Presence of a Clown'' is Bergman's ''Unfinished Symphony.'' Whatever it may be, moviemaking keeps Carl sane and distracted for a while. Perhaps that's the most we can expect of art. [/quote]
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Dirigida por / Directed by
Ingmar Bergman
Reparto / Cast
Börje Ahlstedt, Marie Richardson, Erland Josephson, Pernilla August,
Anita Björk, Agneta Ekmanner, Lena Endre, Gunnel Fred
Sinopsis: En 1925, Carl Akerblom, un inventor, ingresa en un centro psiquiátrico de Upsala a causa de una violenta crisis nerviosa. Allí, con la colaboración de otros pacientes, se propone rodar la primera película sonora de la historia del cine, que trataría sobre los últimos días de la vida de Schubert. En el hospital recibe la inquietante visita de un ambiguo y extraño payaso.
Synopsis: Resident in a sunny mental ward circa 1925, Carl is surrounded by premonitions of death, from the gramophone playing Schubert's Winterreise, to his hallucinatory visions of a sinister, sexually forthright, white-clad female clown named Rigmor (as in rigor mortis). Despite his situation and his record of psychotic rage, Carl is full of grand plans, and surprisingly proceeds to mount his own version of sound cinema by having actors speak the dialogue mouthed by characters in the silent film he has made. Not everything goes to plan, but like the great last works of Schubert, it's a striking instance of the redemptive power of art in the face of mortality.
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in.the.presence.of.the.clown.1997.dvdrip.xvid.ac3.2ch-KG.srt Review: Stephen Holden (New York Times)
[quote]When great filmmakers reach old age, their work tends to grow sparer and more austere, the texture stripped away so that the core themes of a lifetime's output jut out like bones under crumbling flesh. ''In the Presence of a Clown,'' Ingmar Bergman's two-hour 1997 made-for-television movie, is such a film. A gloomy, murky, static work laced with an absurdist gallows humor, it doesn't try very hard to entertain or to look beautiful. But the movie, which the New York Film Festival is screening four times at the Walter Reade Theater today and tomorrow, is still a must-see for Bergman aficionados.
''In the Presence of a Clown'' takes off from a story Mr. Bergman, who is now 80, discovered among the papers left by an uncle who appeared as a main character in his autobiographical films ''Fanny and Alexander'' and ''Best Intentions'' and who is played here, as in those two movies, by Borje Ahlstedt.
Many of the familiar Bergman themes -- the absence of God, the meaninglessness of life, the thin line between sanity and madness, fear and rage at the void -- are restated in the new film, but here the tone is darkly comic. Be warned, however: ''In the Presence of a Clown,'' which is set in the mid-1920's, is not the ''rollicking farce'' the film festival puffery claims. It's quite depressing.
Death, a familiar figure in Bergman films, puts in an appearance, this time in the person of a leering white-faced female clown named Rigmor (read rigor mortis), who first appears to Carl Akerblom (Mr. Ahlstedt), an eccentric inventor, while he is incarcerated in a mental hospital. Within minutes of her appearance, she has bared her chalky breasts and coaxed him to have sex with her. Carl has been hospitalized after trying to kill his young fiancee, Pauline (Marie Richardson). Exactly why he turned on her is never specified except that Carl is subject to inexplicable fits of despairing fury in which he goes temporarily berserk.
When we first meet Carl, he is playing and replaying a scratchy recording of funereal piano music by Schubert, whose death obsesses him. He browbeats his doctor into imagining how the composer must have felt when he discovered a syphilitic chancre. After pondering the question, the doctor bluntly replies that Schubert must have felt ''a sinking feeling.''
''In the Presence of a Clown'' is about how Carl (who appears to be Mr. Bergman's stand-in) deals with that sinking feeling. Upon his discharge from the hospital, he decides to make a movie. Carl boasts of having invented a new cinematic art form, the living talking picture. And the second half of ''In the Presence of a Clown'' follows the making of the film in which actors from behind the screen speak dialogue mouthed by the characters in the silent movie.
The plot of Carl's film is an unwieldy grafting of the story of Schubert's final years to another story told to him by a fellow mental patient about a beautiful 14-year-old countess in the early 1900's who is turned into a high-priced courtesan by her stepfather and becomes a sexual legend while somehow maintaining her technical virginity. In Carl's version, the countess and Schubert have a tragic love affair.
After many production woes, the movie is completed and has its premiere in the village where Carl grew up. But the event, which begins smoothly, turns into a technical fiasco when an electrical explosion threatens to burn down the house. The evening is saved by the actors, who improvise a staged reading by candlelight, and the tiny audience of friends and relatives agree that the reading was better than the movie. (Might this be Mr. Bergman's assertion that when all is said and done, theater is a truer art form than film?)
''In the Presence of a Clown'' opens with that familiar epigraph from ''Macbeth'' about ''sound and fury, signifying nothing,'' which is as pessimistic as any Shakespearean pronouncement. But as you watch Carl suffer hellish mental torments during his final days (the character is 54 but looks much older), his perseverance in the realization of his cinematic dream acquires a certain nobility. The movie within a movie even suggests that ''In the Presence of a Clown'' is Bergman's ''Unfinished Symphony.'' Whatever it may be, moviemaking keeps Carl sane and distracted for a while. Perhaps that's the most we can expect of art. [/quote]
