The Virgin Spring (1960)

(Rural Sweden; 13th Century)
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Winner of the Oscar for best foreign language film, Ingmar Bergman's little masterpiece is an adaptation of a medieval Swedish morality play. The story concerns a young women raped and murdered by two itinerant goat headers, who that very night unknowingly take shelter with her family. Quite and profound the movie takes you to a fully developed, largely unsentimentalized world, one beset by human imperfection and crises. I didn't expect to but I found the whole thing gripping, and surprisingly taught for a Bergman film, yet filled with slow slow moments that only add to the suspense and pathos. Worth seeing.