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Lady from the Sea. Through Nov. 14. A revival of Henrik lbsen's tale of Ellida Wangel, a wife who dreams of leaving the domestic life. $18-$38. Call 266-0800 for more information...
...Henrik Ibsen...
...result is a decorous, resonant three-hour memory film, distilled from a six-hour TV mini-series. Henrik Bergman (Samuel Froler) is a theology student who, it is said, "needs someone to love, so he won't hate himself so much." Anna (Pernilla Ostergren) is a bourgeois princess who finds flint beneath her gentility as she learns to love -- and forces herself to stay with -- this difficult man as he establishes his ministry in a small town. She must find comfort in moments of domestic grace: a chat with her loving father (Max von Sydow), a caress of her pregnant...
...times, when Henrik's dour spirit takes control of the narrative, Intentions threatens to become a mope opera. The film also lacks the intensity that the Swedish master lent his own projects; this is Bergman without Bergman. But it is also Bergman plus August. Like Fanny and Alexander, this film is both worshipful and critical of its heroes. Like Pelle, it sprawls on a canvas of long-ago wealth and want, love and anxiety...
...Henrik Ibsen wrote his three-act play, Ghosts, in response to the critical furor engendered by his unabashedly pro-feminist play, A Doll's House. Instead of depicting a woman who abandons a condescending husband, Ghosts portrays a resolute female protagonist who suffers the after-effects of loveless marriage...