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Fårö-dokument 1979 (1979) [Re-UP]

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Fårö-dokument 1979 (1979) [Re-UP]

Faro Document 1979 (1979)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 4:3 | 01:39:46 | 3,80 Gb
Audio: Swedish AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Annelie Nyström

In a documentary project somewhat akin to 28 Up, Bergman produced two films about his beloved island Farö, where he made his home and which served as the setting for such films as Persona, The Passion of Anna and Through a Glass Darkly. In 1969, troubled by the island's disappearing traditions and the exodus of its young people to the mainland, Bergman made a surprisingly direct and political document about Fårö's importance. Swedish critics hailed it as "one of his finest films." Ten years later, he decided to take a second look at situation, and made his second Fårö Document. (A third was planned for 1989, but was not made.) The update is surprisingly optimistic, with several remarkable "then and now" juxtapositions. The unhappy teenagers about to decamp for Stockholm in the first film turn out to have settled into the quiet, isolated Fårö life. Interweaving scenes of extraordinary beauty with interviews and rigorous sequences depicting everyday chores, customs and rituals on Fårö, Bergman develops a complex, understated and loving portrait of his tiny island.



Fårö-dokument 1979 (1979) [Re-UP]

In 1969, Ingmar Bergman crafted a little-seen documentary entitled Fårodökument - a sociological portrait of a Scandinavian island called Faro, off the coast of Gotland in southeastern Sweden. Bergman was fascinated by the extremes in climate, which make the island unbearably cold and practically unlivable during the winter but quite mild and pleasant in the summer. The territory thus fell into a critical position, where its summer tourists and a handful of residents enabled the economy to exist on the very edge of sustenance - that is, until many of the younger residents decided to take off for Stockholm and other big cities, and threatened to drive the island completely under. Fårodökument 1979 constitutes a follow-up to that original film, where Bergman (in-between Autumn Sonata and From the Life of the Marionettes at the time) re-visits Faro with his cameras and observes the sociological changes that have occurred in the intervening decade.

Fårö-dokument 1979 (1979) [Re-UP]

This yields a series of encouraging onscreen discoveries: the original population size of 673 has remained fairly stable, and many of the teenagers and young adults who yearned for a big city life in the late sixties then changed their minds, deciding to harken back to Faro and do agrarian work with their families - while recognizing augmentative work in other areas as a prerequisite of continued economic stability. In lieu of unearthing the history of the land and the backstories of its residents, Bergman uses his screen time to investigate the interrelationships between Faro's indigenes, their ties to the land, and the components of their lifestyles, from work-related activities (fishing, hunting, construction, agriculture) to leisure. Bergman also touches on the widespread fear of rapidly escalating tourism, and the residents' concomitant need to preserve local culture.
Nathan Southern, Rovi
Fårö-dokument 1979 (1979) [Re-UP]

Ingmar Bergman on the genesis of the film in an interview in Röster i Radio-TV:
Fårö Document 1979 is dedicated to the inhabitants of Fårö. Fårö Document was shown ten years ago, and this film is a follow-up of what was filmed then.

Fårö-dokument 1979 (1979) [Re-UP]

'Even then I had a feeling that we shouldn't let this be a one-off,' says Ingmar Bergman. 'Both Sven Nykvist and I felt that we still had plenty to do. The first film was made over a very short period, six weeks in the early spring of 1969. The big project never materialised, and for various reasons we were forced to shelve it.'

Fårö-dokument 1979 (1979) [Re-UP]

During the summer of 1976 Ingmar Bergman spent six weeks at his house on Fårö, and it was then that his plans were revived. Together with Arne Carlsson, a man born and bred on Fårö and Bergman's stills photographer of many years' standing, he started to sketch out the film. Arne Carlsson, who has learnt his craft a cinematographer from Sven Nykvist, proposed contrasting the crowded beaches at Sudersand in the summer with its total emptiness at other times of the year.

Fårö-dokument 1979 (1979) [Re-UP]

'Arne and I both thought that the schizophrenia surrounding Fårö was something worth documenting,' says Ingmar Bergman.
Fårö-dokument 1979 (1979) [Re-UP]
Fårö-dokument 1979 (1979) [Re-UP]

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