Bergman’s faces
The close-up, the correctly illuminated, directed and acted close-up of an actor is and remains the height of cinematography. That incredibly strange and mysterious contact you can suddenly experience with another soul through an actor’s gaze. - Ingmar Bergman
Bergman was a man filled with doubts, unable to find certainty. I like to think that after looking around and finding no answers, he decided to look at his actresses. And perhaps in those faces he found more truths. Because it seems that everything is contained in their faces: some answers, but above all, all the mystery, beauty, and tragedy that characterize his cinema.
Images:
Summer with Monika (1953)
Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
Winter Light (1963)
Persona (1966)
Hour of the Wolf (1968)
The Passion of Anna (1969)
Cries and Whispers (1972)