Capital Celluloid 2018 - Day 63: Sun Mar 4

The Rite (Bergman, 1969): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 4pm


This 35mm screening, also being shown on March 5th, is part of the Ingmar Bergman season. You can find full details of the season here.

Time Out review:
All Bergman's films around this time centre on isolated social groups (often the partners of a marriage) and show them under attack from both inside and out: Laingian fissures and cracks open up between the characters, and their precarious security is challenged by irruptions from the outside world. Bergman preserves and extends his private mythologies (witness the way that images and names recur from film to film), but in a broader (less precious, more honest) context: The Rite, with a trio of actors under examination by a judge on charges of obscenity, tries to expose the bonds that tie an artist to his audience, and pushes towards a theory of non-communication. A bold step forward in Bergman's analysis of human isolation.
Tony Rayns

Here (and above) is an extract.

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