De Düva

This is priceless - De Düva, a 1968 parody of Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal and, I suspect, several more Bergman films I haven't seen. I'm not sure what's funnier - the fake Swedish ("water" becomes "aitch-too-oasken", "eventually" becomes "sooner-or-lateska"), the mythical Swedish lust, or the great scene when the young girl plays badminton with Death, which is a direct send-up of the playing-chess-with-Death scene from The Seventh Seal. But no matter - it's all quite funny, and I urge you to watch it.

I first saw this during college, in a class I took on Swedish cinema. We had already seen several Bergman films (including Wild Strawberries - which I absolutely loved - and The Seventh Seal) and the professor thought it would be fun for us to see a Bergman parody. Incidentally, my mom still can't believe she paid the tuition bill for me to take a class on Swedish film - she's convinced I was just watching pornography.

(Via Green Lantern Press.)