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...Films begin with the human face," Bergman said, and he filled his screen with the faces of many great actresses, from Bibi and Harriet Andersson to Liv Ullmann and Lena Olin. Even after retiring as a film director, Bergman was still an ace casting director. This time he insisted that Ostergren, who played the maid in Fanny and Alexander, be cast as Anna. It is the film's great coup. She is not exactly beautiful, but her conviction and radiance carry the story's emotional burden: that such a woman could love such a man. The strength of her love...
...discordant, but is also in keeping with the arrogant character of the untalented prima donna whose injury opens the road to fame for our heroine Peggy Sawyer, although she often appears a bit too secure for a little girl who just got off the bus from Allentown. Pa. Finally, Bibi Osterwald brings a certain spunky energy to a rather cardboard character of singing coach. Unfortunately, despite the fine performances, this production is still plagued by some technical difficulties with sound and music levels, but such problems no doubt will be worked out soon...
Charo, Martha Raye, Alain Delon, Mercedes McCambridge and Jimmy ("J.J.") Walker were also along for the ride. At one point the audience gets to witness a sex scene between George Kennedy and Bibi Andersson...
Quintet's tedium is in no way relieved by Altman's film-making technique. In place of his usual brio, the director has used pretentious cinematic gimmicks, monochromatic sets and portentous, dissonant music. He reduces an all-star international cast-Newman, Fernando Rey, Bibi Andersson, Brigitte Fossey, David Langton, Vittorio Gassman-to interchangeable (and often indistinguishable) ciphers. He blurs the perimeters of his images with Vaseline. Though two writers assisted Altman on the screenplay, the witless lines amount to paint-by-number existentialism: "Every time you cheat death, you feel the pure thrill of life...
...MARRIED. Bibi Andersson, 43, Swedish actress and longtime star of Ingmar Bergman films (The Seventh Seal); and Per Ahlmark, 39, chairman of the Swedish Film Institute and former head of his nation's Liberal Party; both for the second time; in Stockholm...