My review of the DVD release of Ingmar Bergman's second film, It Rains on Our Love, first released in 1946, is up at SBS.Extract:
"Apart from the bold treatment of premarital sex – unthinkable in the Hollywood films of the era, due to the Hays Code – the use of an omniscient narrator (Gösta Cederlund) on screen demonstrates that Bergman was thinking in self-referential terms a full 20 years ahead of his modernist touches in Persona. This character not only observes and comments upon the narrative within the same frame as the lead characters, acting as a kind of Greek chorus, but even steps into the drama to alter the course of events..."
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