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The Best Intentions
  • Published: 8 January 2019
  • ISBN: 9781784873905
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $29.99
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The Best Intentions

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The first novel in world renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergman’s trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his parents

In 1909, Ingmar Bergman’s mother and father first meet. Anna is a nurse from a wealthy family; Henrik, a poor, trainee priest living with his lover. From the intensity of their courtship, to the difficult early years of their marriage, Bergman fictionalises his parent’s life before his birth, drawing the quiet, emotional sensitivity of his film-maker’s eye deep into the heart of his own family.

The Best Intentions is the first in renowned film-maker Ingmar Bergman’s loose trilogy of novels that plots the fractious marriage of his parents, continued in Sunday’s Children and Private Confessions.
  • Published: 8 January 2019
  • ISBN: 9781784873905
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman was born in Uppsala, Sweden in 1918. He wrote or directed more than 170 theatrical productions and sixty films, including The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona and Fanny and Alexander, and he is widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the twentieth century. Bergman’s trilogy of­ books – The Best Intentions, Sunday’s Children, and Private Confessions – is based on the life of his parents, and details his own upbringing in early twentieth-century Sweden. Bergman died in 2007.
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Praise for The Best Intentions

Bergman's affecting account of the romance between an upright divinity student and the daughter of an aristocratic family is based on the courtship of his own parents

Publisher's Weekly

Lush and devastating at once... The closest thing imaginable to a Bergman film without pictures or sound

The New York Review of Books