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Scandinavian Cinema
Nordic film — long winters, longer silences, and a durable tradition of treating faith, mortality, and social hypocrisy without flinching.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
The Seventh Seal
Ingmar Bergman · 1957
Persona
Ingmar Bergman · 1966
Let the Right One In
Tomas Alfredson · 2008
The Celebration
Thomas Vinterberg · 1998
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