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What?
Bergman was an ego floating on a sea of melancholy pretentiousness. The faux avant garde quizzically say they understand and admire his work for fear of not being among the art cognoscenti! His stuff is self-indulgent, introspective and artifice built on inauthentic artistic legerdemain. I appreciate the pantheon that includes Fellini, Goddard, Lelouch,Fassbinder,Kurosawa, Antonioni even Almodovar but...Bergman? Nah. May he rest in peace and may we remember him well...as a second-tier talent at best. His best product was not film but Liv Ullman.