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...establish or sustain any sort of dramatic mood. Part of the problem is, of course, the weakness of the voices--notably those in the chorus, which appears on stage with annoying regularity to remind the leads of the power of memory. Nor is the Hugh Wheeler book, based on Ingmar Bergman's enchanting movie Smiles of a Summer's Night, in a class with Sondheim's score. But, in the end, the chief culprit is again Sanek's weak direction, which fails either to paint the frustrations of mismatched love or to create the mood of enchantment which resolves them...
Jittering between them like an arc of electricity between positive and negative poles is Robert Duvall as the older predator. Lashing out with desperate nihilism, Duvall crackles with the quality that Ingmar Bergman once said he looked for above all others in an actor: danger...
...Ingmar Bergman looks like a Levine caricature of himself. His face is a series of exaggerated downward thrusts-from the sloping hooded lids of his gray eyes to the long beaked nose and long chin. Although usually smiling and pleasant, he demands exact preparation and painstaking orderliness. He is on a first-name basis with each member of his German crew, and they with him. Hand-picked as the best film technicians in Germany, they both fear and adore the Swedish director...
Bergman had wanted to make his film in black and white. When the producers resisted, he and his habitual partner, Cameraman Sven Nykvist, found a compromise. Says Nykvist: "Ingmar and I agreed to shoot color in black and white." Although most of the film captures the dark, gray quality of drab Berlin, Bergman has punctuated the gloom with bright and often zany scenes. "After years of crying for him," says Liv Ullmann, who plays Manuela, the nightclub entertainer whom Carradine loves, "Ingmar has finally allowed me to sing and dance." Wearing the scantiest of costumes, Ullmann was ordered to perform...
...need for privacy while filming. Special locks were installed on the doors to the sound stages, with keys supplied to only cast and crew. Behind locked doors, a Bergman set is a calm and quiet place of intense concentration. "On the first day of shooting," reports Carradine, "Ingmar walked me through the scene where I discover my brother's dead body. To dramatize my dazed condition, I was ordered to walk into a closet and sit down. That's when I realized I was in a Bergman picture...