Face and death in Cries and Whispers, by Ingmar Bergman
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Rosto, Grande plano, Gritos e sussurros, MorteAbstract
Three women await the passing of a fourth one. All three are dressed in white and roam silently across the red-wall rooms of a house. Cries and whispers(Viskningarochrop, 1972), by the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, addresses existential questions, amongst which are family conflicts, mortality, femininity and incommunicability. Based on Deleuze’s theory of image-affection (2009), we intend to analyze some of the close-ups of the movie and, in doing so, establish relations between face and death in this particular work by Bergman.Downloads
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