Alan Price

BFI.  Ingmar Bergman Vol 2 (5 Blu-Ray discs).   In the 1950’s we experience Ingmar Bergman’s gradual progression to full maturity as a filmmaker.  The culmination of that journey was internationally recognised in such (now) iconic films as Smiles of a Summer Night, Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal.

Director David Greene has gone on record as saying that he finds upheaval in society to be dramatic and exciting.  “I like my films to be a sort of reportage of the world around the action.” For me this accurately describes the effect of his three remarkable films of the late sixties.  I Start Counting (1969), The Shuttered Room (1968) and The Strange Affair (1968) reveal a brilliantly confident sense of circumvention of plot and action.