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Sweden 1970
| Ingmar Bergman had discovered the bleak, windswept Fårö while scouting locations for Through a Glass Darkly in 1960. Nearly a decade later—and after shooting a number of arresting dramas there and making the island his primary residence—the director set out to pay tribute to its inhabitants. In Fårö Document, shot on handheld 16 mm by Sven Nykvist, Bergman interviews a variety of locals, in the process laying bare the generational divide between young residents eager to leave the island and older people more deeply rooted in bucolic tradition. The film revealed Bergman to be a sensitive and masterly documentarian. |
Theatrical Release: January 1st, 1970
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Review: Criterion (Ingmar Bergman's Cinema) - Region FREE - Blu-ray
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| Distribution | Criterion (Ingmar Bergman's Cinema) - Region FREE - Blu-ray | |
| Runtime | 0:58:44.521 | |
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Disc Size: 47,676,946,380 bytes Feature Size: 15,915,220,992 bytes Average Bitrate: 32.14 MbpsDual-layered Blu-ray MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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LPCM Audio Swedish 1152 kbps 1.0 / 48 kHz / 1152 kbps / 24-bit |
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Release Information: Studio: Criterion
Disc Size: 47,676,946,380 bytes Feature Size: 15,915,220,992 bytes Average Bitrate: 32.14 MbpsDual-layered Blu-ray MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details: • shares the Blu-ray Disc with Faro 1979
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NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc. Criterion present Bergman's Fårö Document (1969) and his follow up, Fårö Document 1979 on a dual-layered Blu-ray with a high bitrate. The original 1969 film looks especially good, with a high level of detail and a healthy amount of grain. The image switches between B&W and Color, both showing decent contrast levels with a strong range of blacks. This was transferred from the original 35mm negative. Fårö Document 1979 was transferred from a mix of both the CRI (Color Reversal Intermediate) negative and a duplicate negative from 16mm elements. Both Blu-ray transfers (This and Faro 1979) have a good fidelity to the original film, its just that 79 looks like a 16mm, as opposed to Fårö Document's 35mm - which is supported by this text screen:
The film is presented in its
original Swedish language, on a 1.0 24-bit linear PCM track. There are
optional English subtitles on this Region-Free
Blu-ray. I was quite surprised by how much I enjoyed Bergman's "Fårö Document" and "Fårö Document 1979". What originally sounded rather dry and anthropological (removed) is quite emotional and just as intimate as one would expect from Bergman. The transfers are great, presenting the film as it would have been seen originally on Swedish TV, only better (from the film's print, not a TV broadcast). |
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