Liv Ullmann: The Muse

Without Ingmar Bergman, cinema as we know it would be radically different. His early hits—Summer With Monika (1953), Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), Wild Strawberries (1957)—primed a global art house movement; his 1957 masterpiece The Seventh Seal opened the floodgates. In its wake, cinematic Pied Pipers like Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Michelangelo Antonioni and Nagisa Oshima, alongside the Swedish filmmaker himself, led a generation into film schools and sent droves of people to theaters.

But if altered the course of filmmaking, the career of Bergman—who died at age 89 in 2007 and whose centennial is celebrated this year—has a different epochal