The Virgin Spring (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
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- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: June 26, 2018
- Originally Released: 1960
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Max Von Sydow, Brigitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom & Birgitta Petterson | |
Directed by | Ingmar Bergman | |
Composition by | Erik Nordgren | |
Director of Photography: | Sven Nykvist |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1960 -
Best Foreign Language Film: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Sven Nykvist's luminous black-and-white photography conspiring with the austerity of Bergman's imagery to create an extraordinary metaphysical charge.
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Time Out
The film is a seminal, Oscar-winning favorite...
USA Today
...One of Bergman's most austere films...
Sight and Sound
Shot in deceptively gorgeous black and white, this is the rare Bergman film in which the violence is as much physical as psychological. -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 2/4 --
Overwrought and ineffective...
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Reel Film Reviews
A film of terrible beauty.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Rating: 3/4 --
Fleshing out the source material, director Ingmar Bergman and writer Ulla Isaksson have created a powerful examination of Old Testament ire coupled with New Testament redemption.
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Creative Loafing
Product Description:
Derived from a medieval ballad, THE VIRGIN SPRING was director Ingmar Bergman's first film to win an Academy Award. The movie represents a return to simpler themes for Bergman after the philosophical complexity of THE SEVENTH SEAL and WILD STRAWBERRIES. On its most basic level, it's the story of violent crime violently avenged, but it can also be interpreted as a religious allegory on Christian forgiveness. A young girl, Karin (Birgitta Pettersson), is raped and killed by two herdsman on her way to church. Her foster sister, played by Gunnel Lindblom, witnesses the crime and reports back to Karin's parents (Max von Sydow and Birgitta Valberg) shortly after the perpetrators arrive at the couple's home seeking shelter for the night, unaware of their hosts' identity. Karin's grief-stricken father decides to take brutal revenge on his daughter's murderers. THE VIRGIN SPRING represents Bergman's first full collaboration with director of photography Sven Nykvist, who had previously worked as a co-director of photography on SAWDUST AND TINSEL.
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- UPC: 715515217811
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