In 1969, with Sven Nykvist as cinematographer, Ingmar Berman made The Fårö Document, a film that ended with a rather pessimist view of the island’s future. One of the scenes in the film is of a school-bus and its young passengers. To these and to the realities ten years later Bergman returns in the long documentary Fårö Document 1979.
Fårö Document 1979, Fårö-dokumentti 1979, Mon île Faro 1979, 法罗档案1979
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A nice follow up done ten years after the first one. Many of the problems still remains to some extent, although probably because Bergman’s more established “celebrity” status it seemed like things got to pick off a decade later. We focus more this time around on the farmers and their lives, shearing sheep and carrying out other chores. There’s a scene involving the killing of a pig that left me scarred enough for me to reconsider my food choices. Like, why was that there? Was Bergman trying to turn people into veganism?
Again, everything is really well shot, and despite its problem, you can see why Bergman and Nykvist liked this place.
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Faro Document 1979 is the second documentary Ingmar Bergman made exploring the remote Swedish island he loved and adopted as his home for the last forty years of his life. This documentary also explores the socioeconomic realities the people who lived there faced. Bergman made this film about midway through his time living in exile in Germany. Faro Document 1979 is longer than the film that preceded it 10 years earlier. It is less austere and more optimistic. In a way it reminded me of the Up documentary series by Michael Apted because Bergman spends part of the film catching up on how various individuals from the previous film are doing and whether their lives turned out the way they…
☆"Yes, it's a fine little island."☆
My Journey into the Films of Ingmar Bergman -- Part 48 of 62
Despite his own personal exile to Germany and vehement opposition to filming in Sweden again, in 1979 Bergman returned to the one safe place in his homeland he knew -- for a brief time, at least -- to follow up on a work from nearly a decade earlier. That was his tranquil island home of Fårö, in the southern Baltic Sea, to produce a sequel of sorts to his documentary Fårö Document, which told the stories of the people of this small rural spot in the sea and how he came to love it as his new permanent living space.
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Though residents here don't have it any better now, things haven't gotten any worse either.
Lovers of pigs should perhaps seek out an alternative documentary if they're seeking a snapshot of the island of Fårö in 1979. This one will, for that demographic, dissatisfy.
As for the rest of us who can stomach the unsavory sights of that one, prolonged scene, it's... wait a minute, this review is starting to feel awfully familiar.
Yeah, unfortunately, this basically ends up feeling like the exact same thing as Fårö Document, except longer, and didn't really elicit any new thoughts. We get to see the island of Fårö 10 years after the previous documentary, and while it's interesting to see the side-by-sides of…
The seventeenth film of my Ingmar Bergman's Cinema binge
Centerpiece One, disc eleven: Fårö Document and Fårö Document 1979 double feature
Just like the last Fårö Document, there really isn't anything to say about this. It's interesting, but a little too long and gets repetitive at points. But it's alright.
The funny thing about this ten-year update to Bergman’s Fårö Document is how effectively it reinforces those ideas—chiefly, that nothing much changes in Fårö. Its residents are tethered to the island’s cycle of life, and in some cases have a newfound appreciation for its quietly desolate beauty.
But that means Fårö 1979 doesn’t present much of anything new, so it’s a bit languid at a longer runtime than the original. Occasionally it’s grueling, with scenes of livestock being gutted and cleaned…drawn out but not unimportant; present to show a consuming, thankless, but satisfactory way of life.
there is an island called Fårö and people live on it and do stuff and bergman wanted you to know that for a second time: a documentary
In one scene a man eats by using the fork to put food on the knife which he then puts in his mouth.
This is literally the most interesting thing that happens in the film.
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(Nearly) 10 years later comes Bergman's documentation of his adopted home. Retreading the lives of those living on the island with old and new faces abound, yet the population has dwindled (and still is!) It's a little exhaustive in execution, but it provides a portal to a space and time on the quiet island of Fårö.
A beautiful and chilling Documantary about a small Island and the People, who still live there.
Yeah, not much more to say, if you're interested in Ingmar, running around an Island, talk to everdbody and show them by doing there daily Work and tell him Story's about the "Good old Days", go for it.
Not as bleak as hoped
Ten Year later Ingmar Bergman (Rank 31●) goes back to the island and looks over the changes that happend in the meantime.
The children who wanted to break out mostly stayed just where they were. The tourism really rose up, but the cataclysmic breakdown because of "them" didn't happen as feared in the documentary from before. But the steady decline in population can not be overstated and is a sad fact, that nobody wants to work hard anymore in a vast dreamland, where shivering winds sure freeze your bones to the core.
