Swedish filmmaker who directed The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona, Cries and Whispers, and Fanny and Alexander — the director most associated with cinema as a medium for philosophical and theological inquiry — and whose films explore God's silence, death, and the agonies of intimate relationships.
Made film into the preeminent medium for existential and theological questioning — Bergman's visual style (extreme close-ups of faces, black and white, long takes) served a philosophical purpose: forcing the viewer to sit with silence, doubt, and the unknowability of other persons.
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