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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Virgin
Fabric Type: 9781559409698
Graphics Memory Size: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Full Screen, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC
Legal Disclaimer: 155940969X
Maximum Color Depth: Criterion
Maximum Focal Length: GermanOriginal LanguageSwedishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitled
Metal Type: Criterion
Pearl Type: IMEDCC1621D
Publisher: 1
Total Firewire Ports: Criterion
Total Metal Weight: 1
Total Parallel Ports: January 24, 2006
Total S Video Out Ports: 89 minutes
Criterion
November 14, 1960
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Product Description:
Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 01/24/2006
Amazon.com essential video:
Made in 1960 and set in medieval Sweden, Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring is based on a folk ballad. It also examines a society in transition from Norse pantheism to Christianity. The film starkly contrasts Ingeri--a dark, feral, Odin-worshipping foster daughter to a Christian family headed by Max Von Sydow--and their own daughter, a pretty and blond but also vain and naïve girl named Karin, whom Ingeri resents. They travel out together to a distant church where Karin is to offer votive candles to the Virgin Mary. However, en route, Karin is raped and murdered by two desperate goatherds, accompanied by a 13-year-old boy. By coincidence, the goatherds then seek refuge with Karin's parents and even try to sell them her clothes, which proves to be a mortal error.
Bergman was greatly influenced by Akira Kurosawa when he made The Virgin Spring, as evinced in its ominous use of dark and shade and lengthy sequences without dialogue. However, this is more than pastiche. Although the Christian ending with which Bergman feels obliged to conclude the film doesn't quite sit well in a movie in which God is as palpably absent as in any Bergman movie, the slow, remorseless pace of the murder and subsequent retribution bring to mind Krzysztof Kieslowski's A Short Film About Killing in their sense of the futility of vengeance. --David Stubbs
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I ordered a copy of The Virgin Spring, one of my favorite Ingmar Bergman movies. It arrived quickly and is in fine shape.
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Never been a great fan of Bergman's films. Have looked at about a dozen of them over the years and this is about the only one that grabbed me.
Usually this guy's touchy-feely B.S. either puts me to sleep or else I get a strong urge to throw things at the screen.
So, yeah, see this one. But I'd say Last House On The Left (directed by Wes Craven) is just as strong and gut-churning, if not stronger. The only thing that is hard to take is the absolutely moronic and UNFUNNY keystone ... Read More
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My uncle was not really in to foreign films, but after a discussion regarding "Last House on The Left" I told him about this movie and sent it to him. When we last talked, he had already watched it 3 times even though he does not dig on subtitles and then raved about the special features. He said movie was in mint condition. Thanks again!
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It's hardly one of Bergman's best films, but "The Virgin Spring" is nonetheless magnificent. Bergman has made a variety of attractive films, but few feature such beautiful scenery and exacting composition as this one. The production also benefits from graceful dialogue, intense performances and stark cinematography - elements that overcome a weak story that was ineptly adapted from the ballad "Töres dotter i Wänge." But even at its weakest - probably during the stilted, conspicuously Christian ending ... Read More
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As someone with wide interests, but only a self-taught layman's perspective on the world, I realize that I tread on thin ice when venturing to comment on such an icon of art films as Ingmar Bergman. But surely art films aren't intended only to be viewed by scholars and critics. And those of the rest of us who want to explore those realms, while giving credence to the views of those scholars and critics, must develop our own opinions to validate the worth of such an endeavor. With this disclaimer out of ... Read More
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