Does anyone think Bergmans Hour of the wolf, Shame and The passion of Anna are importat films?

I mean important. I wondering if anyone thinks these 3 films are important films? I have seen them all and finds them all very intresting and personal films. I don´t think its many who thinks these films are Bergmans keyfilms. I mean like The seventh seal, Wild strawberries and Persona. But in some ways I feel they are more intresting especially Hour of the wolf and The passion of Anna. I don´t think these films are Bergmans best but maybe his mot perosnal. Does anyone thinks they are underrated or do anyone wants to discuss them?

For me, Shame is one of Bergman’s best films. It’s a film that explores a popular Bergman theme (well, not his necessarily, but one he explored often) and it’s done very tastefully. I love that he created this fictional island caught in the middle of this revolution. Wonderfully symbolic and well acted, as per usual with a Bergman cast. And what an ending!

I really like Hour of the Wolf too, but it’s also flawed. One of those guilty pleasures I suppose.

When an artist is as gifted and influential and admired as Bergman, don’t all his works become important? Aren’t little pencil drawn sketches by da vinci and rembrandt worth bajillions of dollars?

Specifically though, I think The Passion of Anna (should’ve stuck with the Swedish title, The Passion) is the only Bergman film I haven’t really enjoyed.

HOUR OF THE WOLF is very important to me. It’s one of my favorite movies.

SHAME is important, at least to me. What’s fascinating is how Bergman uses minimal expression for maximum tension—this feels exactly like war from a civilian’s perspective—but uses that tension partially to illustrate how this marriage functions almost exclusively on the emotion of shame. War is shameful, yes, but so is cowardice and beast-like behavior of all kinds.

I very much like the other two movies, as well.

I love The Shame. It’s one of my favorite films. It is one of the most depressing films you could ever see. It completely turns the tables on certain things such as the sanctity of a marriage, by Eva having sex with Jacobi behind Jan’s back and Jan hiding the money that Jacobi had given Eva in their bedroom. There’s the scene where Jan shoots Jacobi in the head execution style after the invading army has vandalized and blew up their house and an earlier scene where Eva kneels down on the ground to see a dead baby laying in the grass near a burning house. And like Deckard says, what an ending! Dead bodies surrounding the dinghy, the person who is steering the boat committing suicide by slowly drowning himself in the sea. There’s the scene where Eva and Jan meet a young soldier and Jan kills the young soldier for his boots. It’s amazing to see how a group of people can change in a traumatic situation like that.