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WITH HIS psychological studies of unhappiness, Ingemar Bergman may have sunk Swedish filmmaking into the depths of depression. With My Life as a Dog and now The Mozart Brothers, Sweden surfaces again. Brothers is a flippant film about the links between music and Mozart, opera and eroticism. Unfortunately, it is also a hodgepodge of inexplicable touches...
...pummeling his audience with the parallels of the ballet Giselle with this film of Giselle. Shots of Giselle's grave in the staged ballet are interspersed with fuzzy-lensed shots of Lisa looking sickly angelic. And since Dancers is a film of the filming of Giselle, Ross attempts Bergman-like self-referentiality--with shots of cameras and film crews, lenses and light meters--but only succeeds in overstating his own inadequacy as a film director...
...cloak was by Balenciaga; the dagger could come from anyone -- a bullfighter, a bellboy, a ballroom dancing partner. During World War II, Aline, Countess of Romanones lived a life of glamour and danger that Ingrid Bergman only played at in Notorious. Born Aline Griffith in Pearl River, N.Y., the former Manhattan model joined the Office of Strategic Services and was posted to Madrid in 1944, where she decoded messages at the American Oil Mission. The OSS called her Tiger. Her orders: to flush out Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler's special agent in the Spanish capital. The dark, lissome beauty moved...
TIME Senior Writer and Film Critic Richard Corliss watched his first movie, Cheaper by the Dozen, at age five in his hometown of Philadelphia. Eleven years and countless boxes of popcorn later, he viewed Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal and was struck by the realization that films could be more than mere entertainment. That marked the beginning of a fascination with the cinema that took Corliss to the Cote d'Azur to report this week's two-page Show Business story on the Cannes Film Festival...
...Bergman wasn't the only laxmen to return to the field in style...