The Devil's Eye

Banished from Hell to Earth, Don Juan is given a simple task: seduce the bride to spoil her vows. The mission stalls as centuries of detachment crumble when the seductive legend finds himself haunted by genuine feelings for a young woman and the messy moral weather around her wedding. Bergman wires this encounter with irony and doubt, mixing heavenly and hellish schemes with everyday life in a way that questions pleasure, guilt, and love. The result is a precarious balance of wit and longing, where a celestial plan collides with human fragility, and where the boundary between trickery and truth becomes blurred. The setting moves between sunlit rooms and dim corridors where the joke keeps slipping toward something more intimate.

Directed by Ingmar Bergman, The Devil's Eye is an original screenplay by Bergman. It premiered in 1960 as a Swedish production featuring Jarl Kulle, Bibi Andersson and Stig Järrel, highlighting Bergmans penchant for morally charged humor.

The film stands out in Bergmans oeuvre for marrying fable like humor with serious questions about desire and faith. Its playful confrontations with Hell and Heaven echo Bergmans recurring preoccupations and invite audiences to consider the price of romance under cosmic scrutiny.

Critics of the era noted the films offbeat tone and Bergmans signature blend of humor with existential tension. Themes include temptation, forgiveness, and the cost of desire, as the story probes whether love can flourish beneath a cosmic scheme.