Ingmar Bergman's first film in colour is a light-hearted comedy co-written with actor Erland Josephson. The film evolves around the critic Cornelius - Jarl Kulle playing one of his many Don Juan characters - who writes a biography around the famous cello virtuous Felix. When the grand artist dies, a following of beauitful widows are mourning, while the goals of the seductive Cornelius are changing.

"All These Women had been made solely in order to earn money for svensk filmdustri. That it became great, calculated gimmick from beginning to end is another story. In the The Magic Lantern, I wrote: "Sometimes considerably more courage is required to put on the brakes than to fire the rocket. I lacked this courage and realized, only too late, what kind of film I should have made."
- Ingmar Bergman

Photo: Anders Roth
© Stiftelsen Ingmar Bergman

Around this period, Ingmar Bergman was involved with a "Colour Film School", which had already resulted in The Pleasure Garden (1961), and other projects. He and his team carried out various experiments in colour film prior to settling on the colour scale for All These Women. However, it is quite possible that Bergman's disappointment with the results, combined with the lukewarm reception given to the film by the critics, meant that several years were to pass before he would once again venture into colour. Even as late as 1976 he was nurturing plans to shoot The Serpent's Egg in black and white.

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The Magic Lantern
Svensk Filmografi