Variations on a (Bergman) theme...

[Irishman]

I am sure I am not the first to notice these visual parallels, but it's interesting to see the influence of Ingmar Bergman on two other Swedish directors (and one American):

Ingmar Bergman:


Lasse Hallström:


Lukas Moodysson:


David Lynch:

[fish]

Hmmm.
Visual parallels for sure, and even Bergman would appreciate the flattery, but it's probably drawing a bit of a long bow attributing these scenes to his influence.

Mind you if that was the case, I for one would like to see more directors come under his influence.

[Irishman]

Hmmm.
Visual parallels for sure, and even Bergman would appreciate the flattery, but it's probably drawing a bit of a long bow attributing these scenes to his influence.

Mind you if that was the case, I for one would like to see more directors come under his influence.

I'm not even saying it is deliberate (except in David Lynch's case I think it was a direct homage). I was just supposing that it would be nearly impossible to ignore effective visual styles from an influential director from one's own country when choosing how one will shoot various parts of one's films. In the case of FA and ABBA's videos, the parallels to Persona seems to be exclusively visual (and not thematic) and they don't dominate the entire picture. I just saw little hints of Persona in some of the above scenes.

[fish]

...I was just supposing that it would be nearly impossible to ignore effective visual styles from an influential director from one's own country when choosing how one will shoot various parts of one's films...

Yeah, fair call.
I can see your point there.