My review of the Criterion Blu-ray edition of The Virgin Spring is at PopMatters: You can easily imagine the characters in Ingmar Bergman’s devastating The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan, 1961) calling where they live “God’s country”. Their farm is situated in a kind of pristine wonderland of thick pine forests and gurgling streams. Religion plays a central role in most …
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Published on September 29, 2018 23:20