Images from the Playground in Cannes ClassicsImages from the Playground will have its world premiere at Cannes Film Festival on May 17. |
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Few directors have meant so much for the Cannes Filmfestival as Ingmar Bergman. In 1997 he was the first director awarded "La Palme des Palmes" for his cinematographic achievement.
Almost two years after his passing Cannes Classics screens the Ingmar Bergman Foundation film Images from the Playground, including exclusive material from nine of Bergman's behind-the-screen films - from Sawdust and Tinsel to Persona. The film is written and directed by Stig Björkman and has been produced with the support of World Cinema Foundation whose chairman Martin Scorsese also has contributed with a personal introduction to the film.
The film will be screened together with Mexican Redes on May 17. World Cinema Foundation also presents screenings of Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day (1991) och Shadi Abdei Salam's Al-Momia (1969).
Other celebrities in this year's Cannes Classics, guided by Martin Scorsese, are Godard, Antonioni, Visconti and Joseph Losey, the latter you would have turned 100 this year.
Images from the Playground is the first in a series of two films and includes sound recordings with Bergman as well as newly produced commentaries by actresses Harriet Andersson and Bibi Andersson.
The behind-the-screen footage is part of the collection that Ingmar Bergman choose to donate to Ingmar Bergman Foundation in 2002 and that was entered on the UNESCO Memory of the World list in 2007.
See a complete list of the selection in Cannes Classics.
(The editors of Face to Face, April 23 & 29, 2009)