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...MAGIC FLUTE Directed and Written by INGMAR BERGMAN...
That is just the trouble. The movie (lovingly shot in autumnal tones by Sven Nykvist, Ingmar Bergman's cinematographer) is a clutter of notes and notions. The elaborate panoply of symbolism is never transcended, and the young girl herself remains undiscovered. If Malle had hoped to reveal her by uncovering her fantasies, he has only further obscured her, made her a prisoner of her own dream...
...Seven Samurai. The Japanese classic, almost as if Fists of Fury had been re-made by Ingmar Bergman...
...need variety," he says. "After clanging my balls as Sonny, I deliberately chose the mild Billy Buddish sailor in Liberty." He played a tall, sexy version of the short, unsexy Billy Rose with zest in Funny Lady "because I wanted to do a musical." Even if Ingmar Bergman summoned, Jimmy would go only for one, "possibly two" pictures. He is not brash; he simply wishes to avoid ruts, typecasting and difficult colleagues. "Otherwise," he says, "it's three months of pain...
ENDING A MARRIAGE makes people reborn--but only in a tenuous way, Ingmar Bergman seems to say in his movie made for Swedish TV. At the end of the movie, years after their divorce, Bergman's characters Marianne and Johan have each remarried and smoothed out their lives enough to have a new affair with each other. Marianne, originally a paradox-woman whose ability as a divorce lawyer and counselor can't hide her personal inability to see the inconsistencies in herself and her marriage, has emerged from the trauma that surrounded her life from the time Johan left...