accidental feminist

I am cultured, do you hear me? Cultured! November 24, 2007

Yes. Yosef and I have been watching old foreign films, like “Breathless” and “Wild Strawberries”. In fact, “Wild Strawberries” was my first Bergman film ever, I think. And unlike when I saw “La Strada” and thought to myself “Uh, was I supposed to like that or risk being thought uncivilized?” (a question my college boyfriend answered for me when I mistakenly thought our relationship was built on enough honesty for me to ask it out loud; the answer, in case you were wondering, is “yes”. In fact, he spent most of our relationship acting like he liked things that would make him appear very cultured, like “Der Fledermaus” and Nat Sherman cigarettes; I think he almost threw up on me when I admitted that, while I appreciated the Marx Brothers, I didn’t laugh out loud to all the jokes in “Duck Soup”. Now, where was I…?), I actually loved this film. I can see why Woody Allen loves Bergman, too, what with all the self-absorbed and tortured characters and flashbacks to equally uneventful, self-absorbed, and tortured childhoods. Bergman shows that you needn’t live through extraordinary times or events to have lived a life worth consideration.

Also, Bibi Andersson is an awesome actress (yb and I had no clue she played both “Sara” characters), and she’s the quintessential hot Swedish girl.