Ingmar Bergman’s scripts are among the most important documents in film history. Though his vision in such films as Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal has shaped our thinking about cinema, the vast majority of his most powerful recent work only slowly finds its way to American theatres. The Fifth Act brings to English readers for the first time some of the finest creations of Bergamn’s mature years. In these scenarios of extraordinary frankness, even ...
