By Ingmar Bergman
Bearing the entire narrative logos of a Bergman movie, his autobiography unfolds now not in strict chronology, yet as a sequence of flashbacks to his adolescence of sour sadness: "our family", he writes "were women and men with a catastrophic background of over the top calls for, undesirable judgment of right and wrong, and guilt". Bergman additionally tells of the studies of worry and coffee idyllic happiness that prompted his grownup disappointment and self hatred.
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A young photographer who both wanted and was able to do them appeared and devoted day and night to the problems. The last photographs were ready in time for the dress rehearsal. O n Friday 14March we had the first run-through, letting it all go through without interruptions or re-runs. In my diary I wrote: 'Frustrating run-through. Sitting there glaring. Totally outside. Totally unmoved. ) O n the Sunday, Erland Josephson and I were in my room a t the theatre talking about Bach, who had returned from a journey t o find that his wife and two of their children had died during his absence.
THE M A G I C LANTERN Grandmother had another delightful quality. She loved going to the 'movies', and if children were allowed to see the film she took me along. There was only one disturbing element in our joy. Grandmother possessed a terrible pair of galoshes and she didn't like love scenes, which I adored. When the hero and heroine, endlessly and excessively languishing, gave expression to their emotions, Grandmother's galoshes started to squeak. The ghastly sound filled the whole cinema. We read aloud to each other, we invented stories, especially ghost stories or other horrors, and we also drew 'people', a kind of serial.
He was married to a still beautiful but exhausted woman called Helga. They had a great many children and lived in two small rooms above the smithy, where everything was disordered but friendly. My brother and I liked playing with the blacksmith's children. ' I would look on with envy while my friend stood between his mother's knees. She held out her heavy breast and he leant forward and sucked greedily at it. I asked if I might have a taste, but Helga laughed and said I would probably have to ask Mrs Akerblom for permission first.