Ingmar Bergman, un estilo propio de narrar

Resumen

The present essay Ingmar Bergman, a Unique Style of Narrating, deals with both filmography and characteristics of the works by Ingmar Bergman, but not in such a length as the Swedish film director developed his outstanding and full of content film production. This study is based on a theoretical frame where the films by Ingmar Bergman are defined, and it is also structured in the fields, or disciplines, relevant in his extensive artistic production. Several disciplines such as philosophy, so present in Bergman¿s films, particularly in the tortured aspect of existence, as he was a faithful follower of the existentialist Kierkegaard, whose influence is felt clear among all his work; religion, constant and strong in the beginnings and so weak and sporadic from ¿The Silence¿ (1963) onwards; theatre, influenced by Strindberg and his own passion for theatre give personal and specific features to the films; painting, when the scenes resemble real paintings, being Bergman¿s preference the Surrealistic movement, and Salvador Dalí¿s artistic expression his favourite; and music, his passion, so present throughout his life. Despite these disciplines hasn¿t constituted the core of this study on Bergman, they have a place in our survey. Furthermore, the film director¿s experiences and historic framework has been studied to justify some recurrent influences and elements in Ingman Bergman¿s films. The task of watching and analyzing the films has taken up a great part of the present study, due to their complexity and differences among them, because of the tortured personality of the author, what provides the films their nature, so singular and impossible to copy. These facts can be noticed in the author¿s traces embedded in his films, in the different uses of production, what conveys hard mental tasks for the viewer, but that are part of his temper. To compose the present study we have looked up texts by researchers of Bergman¿s work as well as of film industry fields. Moreover, we have watched several films, searching for differences and similarities among them, and both are embodied strictly along our study. Although Ingman Bergman is considered as the artist of minorities, the Swedish artist shaked-up the cinema industry. A leading director, he mixed in his films trends of the moment as well as of the Swedish moment, becoming an essential reference for young and newcomer filmmakers who believe in a new way of making films. His influence is present now, for instance in film directors such as Woody Allen, whose admiration towards the Swedish film artist is undeniable. Woody Allen has devoted the following quote to Ingmar Bergman, which indeed sum up the spirit of the present study: ¿He enjoyed the unanimous acclaim of the critics, but he never needed it; and despite he wanted the audience to love his films, he never created them understandable