The first half of Ingmar Bergman's script seems to call for an almost comically tight-lipped, stone-faced blankness; the second half calls for at least four different coloratura breakdowns. Ullmann “fought like a lion” in the role, and, just hearing about it, you might imagine her Oscar nomination was a reward for a kind of athletic stamina, a heroic stab at an impossible target.
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Lauren Wilford is a writer, mostly on film, and can be found on Twitter and Letterboxd. She is a former senior editor at Bright Wall/Dark Room, and the co-author, with Ryan Stevenson, of The Wes Anderson Collection: Isle of Dogs.
"I’ve done a lot of other things, but when I look back on my work… [my work with Bergman was] probably what gave me most life. Because I was so alive, and I was trusted so much."
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