Since I've become a bigger Ingmar Bergman fan, I've acquired more of his DVDs. Last week I watched a Criterion boxed set of three films from the 60's called The Faith Trilogy. These films were short but heavy going and I need to rewatch them. Bergman has his own style and there are several parodies out there. Here are two of the best mocking his traits: isolation, alienation, traits of one character split into two persons or two characters becoming as one, looming closeups, shadowed faces, disjointed dialogue, solemn music.....
The first one is from SCTV which I remember seeing when originally aired. I wasn't heavily into Bergman then but I got the jokes. The premise is a TV Horror program host showing a Bergman film without his knowledge. This one is mostly based on The Silence from the boxed set. Check out the gibberish Swedish. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-wsbKfFhLw
The second is from French & Saunders, a famous pair of English comediennes. Yes that's Jennifer Saunders before she created & starred in Absolutely Fabulous. The coastal scenes and the cloaked character of Death are from The Seventh Seal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XrAH9Z_Bjk
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