I saw this when it was released and have never forgotten it. I can't stop laughing.
It opens with a shot of a bird coasting overhead, right out of "The Seventh Seal. Soon we find a pigeon instead of a buzzard. It swoops down and poops on he windshield of a car grinding its way along a dirt road in the forest.
Then, as in "Wild Strawberries," there begins a narration by the old professor on his way to a lecture. If you don't pay attention to the subtitles you'd swear the dialog and narration were in Swedish. The supersegmentals are impeccable. The professor informs us that he just won the Peace Prize in Nuclear Physics. The Peace Prize for Nuclear work. That's about the level of humor throughout.
It's about fifteen minutes long and I don't want to spell out too many jokes but Madeleine Kahn plays the part of a girl at a picnic who interrupts the man scolding her to point out that her bedroom window overlooks the barn. The man looks shocked and glances at a nearby cow. "Moo," says the subtitle.
Look, if you haven't seen any of Ingmar Bergman's movie you might still enjoy it because it's intrinsically funny. If you've seen Berman's movies and DON'T like them, you can treat this as cutting and deflationary satire.
It opens with a shot of a bird coasting overhead, right out of "The Seventh Seal. Soon we find a pigeon instead of a buzzard. It swoops down and poops on he windshield of a car grinding its way along a dirt road in the forest.
Then, as in "Wild Strawberries," there begins a narration by the old professor on his way to a lecture. If you don't pay attention to the subtitles you'd swear the dialog and narration were in Swedish. The supersegmentals are impeccable. The professor informs us that he just won the Peace Prize in Nuclear Physics. The Peace Prize for Nuclear work. That's about the level of humor throughout.
It's about fifteen minutes long and I don't want to spell out too many jokes but Madeleine Kahn plays the part of a girl at a picnic who interrupts the man scolding her to point out that her bedroom window overlooks the barn. The man looks shocked and glances at a nearby cow. "Moo," says the subtitle.
Look, if you haven't seen any of Ingmar Bergman's movie you might still enjoy it because it's intrinsically funny. If you've seen Berman's movies and DON'T like them, you can treat this as cutting and deflationary satire.