Bergmanesque

"The term 'Bergmanesque' describes a specific worldview - a bleak psychological chronicle of people living in a world that God has abandoned - evidenced in films the director never even made."

GreenCine Daily 2009

The plot is heavy handed in a moralistic, Bergmanesque sort of way -- it's plainly inspired by The Seventh Seal.

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

It features Wallace Reid as a young millionaire who falls in love with Cleo Ridgely, an Ingrid Bergmanesque actress playing a poor woman from the slums burdened by an alcoholic husband.

Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

The plot is heavy handed in a moralistic, Bergmanesque sort of way -- it's plainly inspired by The Seventh Seal.

Incubus, the first movie in... Shatneranto? Shasperanto? 2008

The plot is heavy handed in a moralistic, Bergmanesque sort of way -- it's plainly inspired by The Seventh Seal.

Incubus, the first movie in... Shatneranto? Shasperanto? 2008

There's a deliberate contemplative pace to the storytelling here that some will undoubtedly call Bergmanesque.

GreenCine Daily: Tribeca Dispatch. 1. 2007

Hugo on Lars von Trier's The Boss of It All: His musical film is less about the magic of musicals than a Bergmanesque annotation of that magic and its place in our filmic mind.

GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 11/26. 2006

The film itself, perhaps as a consequence, is in many respects Bergmanesque.

GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts. 2006

The bare trees dusted with snow made it seem Bergmanesque, and the occasional splash of color — a leftover string of Christmas lights, bright red lipstick on an elderly woman hunching into the wind — struck us as positively garish.

In Hot Water 2006

The problem is that people love the schlub persona, and they've come to tolerate the Bergmanesque dramas, but nobody looks to Woody for barbed, bitter jokes.

Deconstructing Harry Ed Howard 2008