Persistenza e falsificazione. Vicenda autobiografica nell’ultima produzione artistica di Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman’s latest films and works have generally been considered an example of ‘late work’, as in the definition provided by Edward W. Said, according to whom some critical feedback seems to connect bodily conditions with aesthetic style. Fanny and Alexander has been considered Bergman’s ‘last film’, although other films have been produced afterwards – involving sketches of a conclusive auto- biographical statement about his experience of life and art, further exploited in later literary works. The core content of the film gave the director the chance to piece together childhood memories and a personal view of the power of artistic creation. This has therefore led critics and scholars to acknowledge a mostly autobiography- orientated interpretation, also encouraged by the director himself, while some elements in both films and novels hint at a different con- clusion. The main focus for this research is to further investigate the autobiographical content in Bergman’s later work and have a closer look at the significant differences that arise between the director’s actual chronicle and the artistic narration found in his oeuvre.