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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...
...time the movie is over, Dylan has amply demonstrated his contempt for a moviegoing audience. He borrows conceits from Bergman and Bunuel to show off his superficial knowledge of art-house movies. He strives for incoherence in the belief that pointless ambiguity can pass for an avant-garde aesthetic. He tries to arrive at dramatic truth by letting fuzzy conversations drag on interminably...
...Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director: "I'm not a writer. I'm just someone who writes plays and scripts for a single purpose -to serve as skeletons awaiting flesh and sinew...