A refreshingly upbeat tale from Ingmar Bergman chronicling the journey of Antonius Block, a medieval knight returning home to Sweden after a long period of overseas service at the Crusades. The film opens with Block and his pragmatic squire Jons awakening on the coast of Scania, about to make their way back to Block’s estate [...]
October 9, 2007
Sparkle
(Hmmm, snowqueen really putting the pressure on now, just when there’s little of interest in the cinema…)
Warning: Although billed as “a thoughtful picture of modern life, love and relationships with all their messy complications”, this is in fact a rom-com.
The messy complications referred to are rather a set of contrived relationships between the main characters [...]
