- Published: 01/11/2008
- ISBN: 9781846270482
- 129x20mm
- 96 pages
The Director
Alexander Ahndoril
The Director is Ingmar Bergman; the time is 1961; and the setting is the shooting of Winter Light, a film about how his life would have been had he followed his father’s wishes and become a priest. As actors and crew gather to film this alternative destiny, Bergman tries to draw his father into the process, but quickly finds himself plunged back into the emotions of his childhood – both terrorized by his brutal and dominating father, and desperately longing for his approval – and reality gradually begins to crack and crumble, tipping him into a world of false memories and dangerous fantasies. Compelling and breathtakingly original, The Director mixes biographical fact with a wild kaleidoscopic imagination to reveal the boy and the man behind the great film-maker.
£7.99
What a great read! The writer seduced me into his world in much the same mesmerising way that Bergman might do in one of his films. A wonderful novel
Jeremy Irons
Fascinating ... an honest, empathetic and respectful account of creativity, flowing from a unique mind to affect other people's lives, made with Bergmanesque spareness and attention to detail, a vivid tribute to the Shakespeare of our age.
Paul Binding, Independent on Sunday
A Scandinavian version of Fellini's Eight and a Half, the novel melts the imagined and remembered. It also catches the physical atmosphere of Sweden, both warming and chill - like Bergman's relationships.