“When a film is not a document, it is a dream. . . . At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that dizzy sense of magic of my childhood.” Bergman, who has conveyed this heady sense of wonder and vision to moviegoers for decades, traces his lifelong love affair with film in his breathtakingly visual autobiography, The Magic Lantern.

More grand mosaic than linear account, Bergman’s vignettes trace his life from a rural Swedish childhood through his work in theater to Hollywood’s golden age, and a tumultuous romantic history that includes five wives and more than a few mistresses. Throughout, Bergman recounts his life in a series of deeply personal flashbacks that document some of the most important moments in twentieth-century filmmaking as well as the private obsessions of the man behind them. Ambitious in scope yet sensitively wrought, The Magic Lantern is a window to the mind of one of our era’s great geniuses.

“[Bergman] has found a way to show the soul’s landscape . . . . Many gripping revelations.”—New York Times Book Review

“Joan Tate’s translation of this book has delicacy and true pitch . . . The Magic Lantern is as personal and penetrating as a Bergman film, wry, shadowy, austere.”—New Republic

“[Bergman] keeps returning to his past, reassessing it, distilling its meaning, offering it to his audiences in dazzling new shapes.”—New York Times

“What Bergman does relate, particularly his tangled relationships with his parents, is not only illuminating but quite moving. No ‘tell-all’ book this one, but revealing in ways that much longer and allegedly ‘franker’ books are not.”—Library Journal

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo5430622.html

Lanterna magica

di Ingmar Bergman

Un libro che si legge come un film, nel quale i personaggi sono i fantasmi della memoria, i morti “costretti a tormentare i vivi”, “il mondo perduto di luci, profumi, suoni” congelato nell’infanzia che a volte si scioglie liberando sentimenti struggenti. Un percorso che annoda presente e passato svelando quanto del proprio vissuto traspaia nell’opera teatrale e cinematografica.
Non ci sono reticenze né falsi pudori nel raccontare le prime esperienze erotiche dell’adolescenza o i grandi amori della maturità, come quello per Liv Ullmann, o l’entusiasmo giovanile per il nazismo.
In chiusura una pagina tratta dal diario della madre che racconta la nascita del piccolo Ingmar, chiudendo così a cerchio il flusso della memoria

https://www.illibraio.it/libri/ingmar-bergman-lanterna-magica-9788811683544/