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Ingmar Bergman Project #14: Hour of the Wolf (B)

Posted by Dano (aka dano) Dec 7 '10, 11:29

An artist and his wife spend some time on a secluded island where he suffers from crippling insomnia and is haunted by what he believes to be demons. Spending this isolation with him, the wife begins to become drawn into his world. It's Bergman's psychological horror film about the tortured artist who collapses inward threatening to take his wife with him. I liked it well enough, and it feels a lot like what I expected from a Bergman film before starting this project.

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+
Through a Glass Darkly (1961): A-
Winter Light (1963): B+
The Silence (1963): A+
Persona (1967): B-
Hour of the Wolf (1968): B

Responses:

I'm surprised you didn't like Persona more (did I miss a review on that one?). You have some good ones from the 70s coming up imo. -- nm - Don Homer Dec 7, 11:31 2
- Yeah, Persona seemed like one I should have liked more and it's widely considered his masterpiece but I couldn't get into it. -- nm - Dano Dec 7, 11:36 1
  - And I'm behind in posting films I've watched, so I'll do a few today. -- nm - Dano Dec 7, 11:41

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