Marco Faulkner Review Posts
Thu, Sep 02, 9:27 AM
whalestails posted to marco
Movie Review
The Serpent's Egg
Mini-Review: Last night I watched The Serpent's Egg, an Ingmar Bergman film from the MGM (a studio soon to dissolve) box set. I've got to say this was genuinely one of the -strangest- movies I've ever seen. First of all, it stars David Carradine. Yeah, that's right. The oddball Kung-Fu grasshopper, in a Bergman movie. And secondly, it was in english. A movie made in Germany, with predominantly foreign actors, and a Swedish director - in english? Thanks a lot, Hollywood. Granted this was Bergman's only Hollywood outing and he didn't write the thing, The Serpent's Egg still reflects the director's abstract visual indulgences that can be seen prominently in films like The Passion of Anna and Hour of the Wolf. It's weird, because this movie's portrayal of 1920s Nationalist Germany, feels a lot more like sleezy 1970s New York. Drugs, piercings, and decadent sex included. The thing that struck me most, though, was Carradine's completely uneven performance. He'd go from sounding amateur and monotone straight to these overwrought outbursts where he was clearly thinking, "alright, I better start acting before someone notices that I'm not." The Serpent's Egg is a real oddity, I'd only recommend it to people who love Bergman and purely curious about the evolution of his filmography.
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Marco at 9/2/10 9:39 p.m.
Cool. I love Bergman of late 60s and 70s.