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Unforgettable images
Bergman's images were archtetypal. I remember them almost as if I didn't see them in a film, as if they happened to me -- but not to me, deeper than that: parts, pieces, scenes -- the father in Virgin Spring beating himself in the sauna, inflicting pain to drown out the pain of his daughter's rape and murder and preparing himself for what he knows he must do; the magic shop of Fanny and Alexander (so many scenes from Fanny and Alexander), the theater troupe (?) in Wild Strawberries, the silhouetted dancers in the distance, of course, in Seventh Seal -- so many more. Bergman was the definition of a great filmmaker.