… But Film Is My Mistress

The documentary is about the way Ingmar Bergman worked. Liv Ullmann guides the account. Directors for whom Bergman matters also speak. Among them are Woody Allen, Olivier Assayas, Bernardo Bertolucci, Martin Scorsese and Lars von Trier. The film shows Bergman as someone who set a difficulty for himself and for his crew on every new project. What the actors and the people behind the camera say makes up the body of the account. How a director works on a set is the real subject. The sixty six minutes rest on interviews and archive footage. The cinematographer Sven Nykvist is in the material as well. Stig Björkman’s Swedish documentary was completed in 2010.