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Grim Waters. In essence, Argento and Nolte have written an opera for the music lover who also enjoys the dreamscapes of Fellini and early Bergman. Moods billow like the Dry Ice currents that lap across the stage, suggesting waters as grim as the Styx. Characters are rarely who they seem to be. Even Poe is not always sure who or where he is. His antagonist is a shadowy character named Griswold - based on Poe's vindictive literary executor, Rufus W. Griswold - who seems to be lago here, Mephistopheles there, even turns into Poe himself...
Notorious. Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant locked in the longest kiss in movie history. A Hitchcock masterpiece, with Claude Rains as the Nazi operative who at least gets to sleep with Bergman before he kicks off. Roger Ebert, the film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times writes to the Village Voice this week: "In an uninterrupted take showing a character climbing those stairs [in Rains's house] there appear to be exactly 22 steps, but that in the masterful final scene of the descent of those stairs, a count of the steps taken by the various characters indicates that they...
This is a strange, stormy period for Ingmar Bergman. His well-publicized humiliation at the hands of the Swedish tax authorities (TIME, Feb. 16) led to two weeks in a sanitarium and, currently, recuperative retreat on Faro, his island home near Stockholm. Professionally, his movies have been enjoying, at least in America, their greatest popularity: Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage, The Magic Flute have been much honored and widely attended...
...this does not obscure the fact that Bergman is working at less than full capacity. The new films lack the daunting, haunted intensity, the sheer stylistic brilliance of the earlier Persona (1966), Shame (1968) and The Passion of Anna (1969). The most recent movies are transitional works, and Face to Face is typical of them. It is a movie that marks time...
Like much of Bergman's canon, Face to Face is about an emotional quest and a spiritual trial. It concerns Dr. Jenny Isaksson, a Swedish psychiatrist who is enduring the same sort of crisis she is trained to cure. Her husband is off in the U.S. at a convention. Her daughter is away at summer camp. Jenny, for company, moves in with her grandparents, who have decorated her room with all the furnishings of her childhood. Instead of reassuring her, the trappings of girlhood seem to hurry Jenny back to a period of intense vulnerability. She is haunted...