Word: bergmanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This description of the film's story plays it false, makes it seem somehow a schematic representation of a textbook family, when in fact the people of Paradise are carefully particularized. The film is the first time that Gunnel Lindblom, an actress in several Ingmar Bergman movies, has directed (Bergman has the producer's credit). Her touch is usually delicate. Even the unhappy ending is understated, though there is a hint of further tragedy to come. There will be more to this family's life, and not all, of it a misery, before we write finis either...
Night Music is an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's classic comedy about mismatched lovers, Smiles of a Summer Night. Perhaps to avoid potentially odious comparisons, Prince has switched the setting from Sweden to turn-of-the-century Vienna, but he might as well have shot the film in a Burbank TV studio. A wizard of stagecraft, he seems to freeze behind the camera. Since the photography is usually static and the editing monotonous, the lyrical flow of the original production evaporates completely. The movie's arty opening and closing scenes, which suggest that we are watching a play...
Film Society: Face to Face. Liv Ullman plays a psychiatrist in this Ingmar Bergman film, 112 Pendleton East...
...Serpent's Egg. Ingmar Bergman hasn't set a film in a broad, sociological context in a long time. It shows. If this means his next film will be a masterpiece, then it's probably worth it. It doesn't take genius to figure out there's something very, very wrong with this movie, but so many critics have dwelled cruelly and accurately on its short-comings, that I'd like to confine this discussion to the film's good qualities...
...wrap up his movies. Yet along the way his script offers one moment of recognition after another. Some of the funniest occur when Erica and her female friends get together for in formal consciousness-raising sessions that are accurately described as "part Mary Hartman, part Ingmar Bergman." Mazursky has also written some moving scenes for Erica and her 15-year-old daughter (Lisa Lucas); he understands painfully well the bottomless angers and conflicting loyalties that divorce creates among both adults and children...