The passing of the film director Ingmar Bergman is already leading to tributes not only to his supposed greatness – one critic today calls him “the greatest artist of the 20th century” — but also to the nobility of his efforts to grapple with the most painful aspects of the human condition. I call these judgments into question in this column. Bergman’s death put me in mind of one of the great film shorts, a parody of his work in brilliant pidgin Swedish called “Die Duva (The Dove)” that was nominated for an Oscar in 1968. If you have 14 minutes, you can watch it here — it’s genius.