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In our December 2000 issue, we heard from Liv Ullmann about directing a film from Ingmar Bergman’s semi-autobiographical screenplay.
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In our December 2000 issue, we heard from Liv Ullmann about directing a film from Ingmar Bergman’s semi-autobiographical screenplay.
Movie theaters are slowly reopening, but most of the new releases are headed to streaming services rather than the big screen. Whether you're staying at
RED DOT Review: Grim, Gripping Swedish Survival Thriller Now on Netflix By Chad Collins Written by Alain Daborg and Per Dickson Directed by Alain Darborg Red Dot, Netflix’s first Swedish original feature-film, is darker, gorier, and generally more misanthropic than most Netflix genre fare. A spiraling and unyielding descent into a frozen hellscape of the protagonists’ own design, Red Dot’s high-concept, high-yield premise– namely, a couple on a camping retreat are awoken by the sight of a red laser dot in their tent– m...
Marking Netflix's first-ever Swedish movie, Red Dot has now shot onto the streaming service for anyone after a relentlessly grim survival thriller. The movie follows married couple David (Anastasios Soulis) and Nadja (Nanna Blondell) who are on a romantic trip in the Swedish mountains that quickly turns into a nightmare. On their first night, a red laser dot appears in their tent and forces them to flee into the wilderness, leaving the couple fighting for their survival. But Red Dot has a dark twist in its tail – the hunters that David and Nadja think are after them actually turn out to b...
The island is Faro, where Ingmar Bergman lives, and the house is Bergman's house, and the beach is where he walks, and the office is where he works, and we can see a shadowy 16mm film projector in the background, and remember hearing that the Swedish Film Institute sends him weekly shipments of films to watch. And the old man in the film is named "Bergman," although we don't learn that essential piece of the jigsaw until the final credits. Or perhaps the house and its office are a set. And perhaps "Bergman" is partly Ingmar Bergman and partly the director's fictional creation. And surely, we ...