why did you have to come to Casablanca?

Notes on Classic Movies


     Actress Ingrid Bergman is a majestic presence in any movie in which she appears.  I recently watched a movie I didn't even really want to watch because she was in it -- making crazy drama seem 
so, so necessary!  LOL.  Ibsen's Hedda Gabler is one of those plays (made into a movie) that leaves you saying, Oh my goodness, these people are crazy!

     The whole movie is on You Tube.


     But my recommendation, if you want to have a basic Ingrid Bergman experience -- Ingrid Bergman 101 -- watch these three films:

Notorious 

Indiscreet

Casablanca.


     Indiscreet is light and fun and has great panache, on several different levels.

     Notorious is Hitchcock -- but not violin-screaming, people getting stabbed, birds-pecking-people-Hitchcock; rather, it's 1940-1959 Hitchcock. 

Not gruesome.

Suspense, shadows; trying to figure things out through the fog of pretenses; fight-against-evil; spies; loyalty; romance with obstacles; trust issues and uncertainty....  

There's no birds pecking.


     And Casablanca -- overall, it's love story and morality contemplation, set on backdrop of World War II.   

It is one of the best films ever made, in any language.

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Casablanca, you have to buy it on DVD, or buy it (or rent it) in Prime Video from Amazon.

     But Indiscreet and Notorious are both on You Tube.

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