2016/1/24
當1960年Bergman在為拍攝他的film trilogy之一Through a Glass Darkly選外景時,他來到了isle of Faro,一下子就迷上了這荒蕪人煙,荒涼枯寂,除了偶有一些漁民和放羊的牧民,就大石與海相伴的海邊小島。當他1976年因為不成立的稅務案件被抓後一怒之下離開瑞典自我放逐到德國8年;當他再次回到瑞典時,他選擇Faro作為他工作和終老的地方。
Faro是個什麽樣的地方呢,為什麽Bergman如此迷戀?
Bergman盡管出生在瑞典Uppsala的一個地位崇高的牧師家庭,但他卻屬於一個生下來沒有歸屬感的人,或者是心靈沒有歸屬感的人,而Faro剛給了他一個Shelter – a refuge from the world, a place he went to escape。
“My community spirit lies in Faro. Since my childhood I’ve felt rootless wherever I happen to have been. It was only when I first went to Faro in 1960 and move there 13 years ago that I felt at home somewhere in the world. That’s where my roots are, where I feel that belong. When I’ve finished my work down here in Munich, or finished my work full stop, then I’ll go back there and become a Faro man.
作為一個創作力極強的living his own way的restless artist,在島上,他發現了絕對的平靜。
“No one to see and nothing to disturb you, just nature. I have often been here in the winter time, at Christmas. At night there is just you and the stars – they are so close. There are no lights. Dark everywhere. ”
“It is sort of a shelter. He doesn’t have to meet people here. He can be alone with stones and the heavens. It is good for the soul. I don’t know if it is something intrinsically Swedish, loving the sea and the wind so much? Maybe it is.
Bergman是舉世公認的成就偉大的導演和藝術家,但在他的國家,他也許就不那麽幸運。因為6-70年來,他就象一塊巨石一樣,讓他國家的其它藝術家黯然無光。瑞典演藝界跟他的關係是一種競爭的關係,而他又是一個內省型的藝術創作者,一個不堪政治及藝術之外喧囂的藝術家,他生命中的唯一女神就是電影藝術,所以,自我選擇在一個小島上幽居也許是一個最好的歸宿。
這個小島不僅給了他藝術的自由,而且是他拍攝電影時取之不竭的外景。枯石,海水,黑夜,光線…在他的鏡頭下變得極具生命力,讓他的電影別具另一番更接近自然本真的魔力。
了解作者的心靈歸宿,了解作者的審美誌趣,也許是一個比較好的了解Bergman的切入口。