A Filmversation with Mike and Nick

Sawdust and Tinsel - Ingmar Bergman (1953)

Mike & Nick

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The Bergman retrospective continues with one of the director's first widely-recognized works. What is it about the circus setting that is so unsettling? Nick argues this is Bergman's first masterclass example of the close-up.