10 FUNNIEST Bergman moments. Any more?
Even in Bergman's starkest films, there are hilarious moments. Here are 10. Can you think of others? (I'm making a compilation film).
1. WILD STRAWBERRIES. Engineer argues with wife about her cancer vs his Catholicism. She smacks him in the face (with eyeglasses) at least 10 times, HARD.
2. CRIES AND WHISPERS. After mutilating herself with broken glass, Ingrid Thulin paints a smile with her blood on her face to arouse her boring husband.
3. SILENCE. A boy wanders into a roomful of midgets, who put a dress on him. He doesn't resist because he actually ENJOYS wearing it.
4. TO JOY. Aspiring young musician Stig Olin finally gets his one-in-a-lifetime big chance at a Mendelssohn violin solo. He blows it, BIG TIME. (Liv Ullmann murders Chopin Prelude in AUTUMN SONATA, to the delight of Ingrid Bergman.)
5. DREAMS. In a hotel room, Eva Dahlbeck is humilated by the wife of her secret lover. When the wife leaves, the lover returns to Eva. Eva is thrilled. He only came back to retrieve his lost hat.
6. SHIP TO INDIA. Holgen Lowenadler is blind, and asks a cop if a window is nearby. Cop dutifully obliges him. Holgen dives out of window head first.
7. SERPENT'S EGG. Carradine visits den of whores. Male whore warns Carradine that one of the female whores has "fangs in her cu@t. A man can DIE in THERE!"
8. SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE. Liv Ullman cries on the phone telling a friend about her husband's extramarital affair and departure. The friend says she (and other friends) knew about it. Liv slams down the phone in anger: "SOME FRIENDS...SOME FRIENDS!".
9. PASSION. Liv Ullmann is in a toolshed praying for Erik Hell, who committed suicide. Von Sydow sees this and scolds her: "Goddamn lousy acting!"
10. PERSONA. Bibi Andersson's torture of Liv Ullman actually begins in the hospital, where she forces Liv to listen to soap operas on the radio.