The Power of words over the human imagination

It's a beach scene without the beach, a sex scene without Sex – and yet one of the most erotic moments, has given rise to the cinema. In the midst of Ingmar Bergmans verrätseltem Two-women Drama "Persona" begins Bibi Andersson, to tell the story of a day on the archipelago, from the sun on your bare bottom, by another woman, two very young men, the observe only, and then to approach – and how all of a sudden surreal-pornographic escalated. And Liv Ullmann, and your listener is sitting, in a dark room, she listens and remains seemingly unmoved.

It's about the Power of words over the human imagination, but also the desires and the turmoil and contradictions in the Interior of a modern woman, could finally, in 1966, also at times sexually explicit; it goes to the Entblössung of the soul and the mystery of existence at all. That was fundamentally new, and Bibi Andersson was one of the women in this obsessive project, the ladies and gentlemen of the Bergman and used and adored and excessive, to the lovingly-merciless gaze of his camera truths in found, of which they knew nothing.

Berit Elisabeth Andersson was born in 1935 in Stockholm and at the acting school of the Royal Dramatic theatre trained. With sixteen years she was the face of commercials for soap, and the man who deserved this job work money for his theatre company and began soon into the Ensemble, was Ingmar Bergman. Somehow, that fits, because at that time they appeared to be scrubbed, in fact, a little too smooth to be true – a bit too cute, to blonde, to warm, the perfect Swedish girl-next-door. So she appeared in her first Bergman films .

you are unleashed in a few minutes, the anger and disappointment of a woman's life In "Smiles of a summer night," it was a surreal scene, in "The seventh seal" became the embodiment of unbroken piety in a doubtful Film. Also the old Professor in "Wild strawberries" owes her at the end of a part of his soul peace. Since it appears in a double role, as the ideal of a free-spirit with short hair and a youthful, innocent reminded beloved and as a hitchhiker, the, healing, empathy. In that time, the end of the fifty years, she was also a private mountain Mans partner.

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Then she broke away from him, turned also with other Swedish Directors such as Alf Kjellin and Vilgot Sjöman, and was always the most Memorable, when she was again drawn to the Bergman universe. "Persona" was a milestone, because now the hardness on the rail in trains, won her image in the cinema, depth and sharpness. As a nurse you should take care of a Liv Ullmann embodied actress, who stops on the stage and no longer speaks. As at the beginning of your career it seems as if Andersson was the warmth and caring in this constellation is responsible to the Psychologies and identities of the two women dissolve more and more into each other.

Therein an emancipation that could live out Andersson in the other roles, then explicit was, for example, in the movie "The girl" of the Director Mai Zetterling, where, in 1968, flew in the protest scenes against the Patriarchy the bra. At the same time, she began an international role to accept the offers, played such a beautiful, neurotic, life-ridden prostitute for John Huston in "The letter to the Kremlin", starred in Robert Altman's ice - and end-time vision "quintet" and in an episode of the Allstar-flight disasters series "Airport '80 – The Concorde". A truly international career was not, however, and shorter appearances, such as in Gabriel Axel's Danish Film "Babette's Feast" were eventually rar.

So your development as a woman and actress she is best with Bergman-moments to describe. Their last performance under his direction a marriage," in 1973, was in "scenes, where they revealed in the opening sequence, once again, completely new pages. Two couples meet for dinner, the hosts, the citizens play-sovereign Pair, which can shake holding seemingly nothing. Andersson's talking about but, clear text and is unleashed in a few minutes all the anger and disappointment of a woman's life. On Sunday Bibi Andersson, 2009, by a stroke of her ability to speak was lost, died in Stockholm. She was 83 years old.

In Ingmar Bergman's Film "Presona" shines Bibi Andersson, among others, as she portrays the famous beach scene. Source: Youtube

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Created: 16.04.2019, 14:33 PM