Ingmar Bergman project #9: The Virgin Spring (B+) (spoilers)
Posted by
Dano (aka dano)
May 24 '10, 07:49
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I knew that The Last House on the Left was inspired by The Virgin Spring, so I knew the basic plot before watching it. Of course, Bergman's film is quite a bit less explicitly gory and more concerned with religious ideas of revenge and redemption. I found it to be a little longer than it needed to be even at 90 minutes. There's just not a whole lot of story to it so it felt like there was some filler. I also found it interesting that he made the innocent victim to be rather unlikeable, though I wonder if that was just my interpretation. I thought she was a spoiled little bitch, not that that means that she deserved to be raped and murdered of course.
Bergman Project Summary To Date:
Crisis (1946): C-
Port of Call (1948): C+
Thirst (1949): C+
To Joy (1950): B
Sawdust and Tinsel (1953): A-
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955): C-
Wild Strawberries (1957): A-
The Seventh Seal (1957): A+
The Virgin Spring (1960): B+
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