It felt like Bergman


I have seen many movies that were highly influenced by Ingmar Bergman, but no movie was as close to the spirit of Bergman's movies as The Seventh Continent.
Let alone some close-ups on faces and other directing techniques, I am talking about the feeling that the movie leave you with. Just watch the dinner scene where the depressed brother starts crying, for example.
I think the term I am looking for is "Bergmanesque".


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This actually reminded me far more of Chantal Akerman than Bergman. The non-moving camera, the long takes, the blackout cuts, the totally banal degenerating into self-destruction.

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