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...Your hiding place isn't watertight," observes a character in Ingmar Bergman's 1965 film Persona. "Life trickles in from the outside and you are forced to react." Last week the Swedish director found life flooding...
...AMERICAN film world centered in New York has seized upon a new focus: Italian director Lina Wertmuller. No other recent director has achieved such monumental stature so immediately and so unanimously, with the possible exception of Robert Altman. Critics compare Wertmuller without hesitation to Bergman, Fellini, and Antonioni; she is besieged by interviewers; her films are mobbed...
...longer the same young girl who shared a sleeping bag with Gary Cooper in For Whom the Bell Tolls back in 1943. "I've reached an age where I am starting a new career as a character actress," says Ingrid Bergman, now at work on her 43rd film. The movie, which will be titled A Matter of Time in English-speaking countries and Nina elsewhere, stars Bergman as an aged contessa and Liza Minnelli as a young hotel chambermaid enthralled by the older woman's reminiscences. Bergman, who still needs nearly an hour-long makeup job to affect...
...Bergman is obviously infatuated with the opera; he hasn't been so playful since he made Smiles of a Summer Night. His animals look as though they were stolen from a children's nursery. The dragon in the first act struts on breathing fire and smoke, minces aggressively across the stage like Milton Berle in the wrong costume, and rolls his eyes soulfully as he is speared by the Queen's three ladies. Later, Tamino and his flute charm a whole stageful of forest creatures who look like plush Walt Disney cartoons. Bergman interpolates respectful self-assertions wherever...
There is no trace of the oppressive, gaunt quality of Bergman's earlier films. The Magic Flute is a work of such magic and belief that Bergman's agonized mysticism seems to have found a total release in the expression of another artist's orderly, God-filled universe. The film is sensitive, joyful, full of serious wit. One hates to say it, but classical opera is rarely so sexy or so much fun as this...