Ingmar’s Actors: Ingrid Thulin

[@anthonyjyearwood816]

Thulin has always been my favorite Bergman actress. Especially for her haunting performances in The Magician, Winter LIght and Cries and Whispers.

[@staffansoderberg1007]

Ingrid Thulin, hell of a gifted actress. This reminded me and almost made me cry.

[@fabreurio1]

They don't make faces like that anymore. And she was fearless: think of "Winter Light", "The Silence", "Cries and Whispers", Bolognini's "Agostino" and Visconti's "The Damned". Before Isabelle Huppert, there was Ingrid Thulin (genital mutilation scene included).

[@staffansoderberg1007]

Yes, never thought of that before; the similarities of Ingrid and Isabelle. Appreciate them both as one the very best.

[@ablazedark]

"Before Isabelle Huppert, there was Ingrid Thulin". yes! this is the comment! now i understand why i always felt there was something unique yet familiarly disturbing about her, which i adore.

[@TheOverlordOfProcrastination]

Not just a great actress, but incredibly beautiful. Damn...

[@IsabelSantosCunha1972]

One of my favorite actresses of all time. Curious enough, my number one is also Swedish: Garbo "The Queen".

[@RaymondHng]

In a Swedish-American organization I worked for, I named all the computers after Swedish actresses. Thulin was one of them.

[@TheMrBennito]

By far my favorite actress.

[@mckavitt13]

AND she was so very beautiful 😍

[@tapaspurakayastha1240]

She knows human relation with perfect expression through her inner thoughts

[@wsx555]

Sin duda mi actriz favorita del universo Bergman. Esa manera de transmitir solo con la mirada y los gestos es alucinante. Y su semblante, serio y recto pero bañado con una distante calidez me encanta, así como su sutil masculinidad. Genial actriz!

[@someguy957]

Perfecto!

[@marsalmeron1980]

Totally agree!!

[@someguy957]

Thulin is by far the best of Bergman's leading actresses. Such intensity. Such an ominous sense of danger in her performances. Bibi Andersson and Gunnel Lindblom were both superb at what they did, but neither could match Thulin's ferocity. And I hate to badmouth anyone while complimenting others, but you can see that Liv Ullmann is rather weak tea compared to these other three. Bergman was clearly drawn to her quivering vulnerability, which does not age well (see, for example, Hour of the Wolf: Ullmann has no character to play, just panicked/forlorn expressions to display). The reason that Persona works is that Bibi Andersson does all the talking while Ullmann looks stricken. That's a good division of labor.

[@giovanna722]

See, to me she looks frozen. Unsensual. However, I'm not drawn to mannish women, however glacially beautiful they are.

[@giovanna722]

Wow, I don't know how you can miss Ullmann's smoldering depth in Persona. I hardly think a film director of Bergman's stature would create a two dimensional character in a central role of one of his most esteemed movies.

[@someguy957]

@@giovanna722 No, I only meant that Bibi Andersson is really doing all the heavy lifting in Persona because she can. It's in Hour of the Wolf you can see the limits (relatively speaking) of Ullman's abilities compared to Andersson's. However, since I wrote the original comment, I've re-watched Scenes From a Marriage in which Ullman's (again, relative) passivity is put to devastatingly good use.

[@lucretiaweil75]

​@@giovanna722 Those were stereotypes mostly created by male directors (Garbo, Dietrich, Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Thulin, Tippi Hedren). Even if some of these women were lesbians or bisexuals, Thulin, in person, was very feminine, funny, down to earth, not tortured at all, with a great number of friends. In "Winter Light" she portrays wonderfully the drama of an ugly woman, uncorresponded in her love, with moving fragility.

[@alinespos]

My favorite actress!

[@sultanalharbi2998]

What about Harriet Andersson? she played Monika for god's sake.

[@phspalace1021]

A Great actress - Ingrid Thulin.

[@TheGVA94]

Very very powerful. Amazing.

[@enminghee2926]

I sometimes wonder if she was secretly the inspiration for Disney's Elsa (emotionally frigid, expressive hands, paired always with a flightier younger woman onscreen). Lol. Her character's younger sister in The Silence was also named Anna.

[@darkphoenix474]

I hope these are not on the box set cause I’ve spent months trying not to watch any material on it but now I need to see these

[@fredred9546]

Love this video

[@edsonnavarrus7379]

lovely complexity she aged not so well but who cares... great video 🌹🌹🌹

[@sky44david]

Bravo!

[@ablazedark]

among 4 goddesses of bergman, thulin is my favorite. bibi is the unruly one, while liv is angelic and gunnel is feisty. and thulin has that dark, icy charisma.

[@saviofernandes6934]

Andersson?

[@KBrianO]

You forgot Harriet Andersson

[@Funkywallot]

Harriet is deffo the unruly one 😃

[@timbuckley3995]

What about the movie ‘Night Games? She was a good bipolar mother in it.

[@renan.csmaia]

She looked like Kristin Scott Thomas.

[@mckavitt13]

Rather, Kristin Scott Thomas looks like Ingrid Thulin.

[@michaelcarvalhosilva6624]

I think Piper Perabo looks a lot with Ingrid Thulin.

[@someguy957]

Oh please. She looks like Kristen Scott Thomas the way Marilyn Munroe looks like Anna Nicole Smith.

[@cidvasconcelos6919]

Tradução de verbete de David Thomson a respeito de Ingrid Thulin: magiadoreal.blogspot.com/2022/06/o-dicionario-biografico-de-cinema137.html

[@bajca2801]

LEPA ZENA

[@Johnconno]

The priest in Winter Light didn't know what was good for him. ❤

[@mckavitt13]

Another voice... please. A Swedish voice, for instance.

[@linusfotograf]

It’s for the American market, no?

[@mckavitt13]

@@linusfotograf Oh yes. God the Dollar Almighty? That voice is sickening for its nasality & its ugly ubiquity.

[@mckavitt13]

@@linusfotograf It discourages listening, so any other voice &/or accent would be better for the US market.

[@someguy957]

It really is a terrible American voice. Nasal, flat, words slurred and barely enunciated, like she'd been given a shot of novocain. There are a couple of points where I can't understand what she's saying. She just not fully forming the words.

[@mckavitt13]

@@linusfotograf It’s for the world market. Why do we export all our worst qualities?

[@MB-cx2ks]

Silly commentary.

[@sjohnson1216]

Commentary is rubbish.

[@edsonnavarrus7379]

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