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...sacrament of penance) is the last of a trilogy of films about his parents. All three--the others are the 1982 Fanny and Alexander and the 1992 Best Intentions--were made as Swedish TV serials, then condensed for theatrical release. This film, directed by Bergman's lustrous actress Liv Ullmann, is the finest of the three. It distills four lives into a series of chats, revelatory confessions, between a woman and the men in her life...
Great filmmakers create, or attract, great actors. Bergman's performers, especially his actresses--Ullmann, Eva Dahlbeck, Bibi and Harriet Andersson--have transformed his dour testaments into radiance. August (who will play the young Darth Vader's mother in the new Star Wars film) is an excellent heir to that magnificent tradition. Emotions don't play on her face; they live there in all their complexity and contradiction. They flush into a mischievous grin or produce tears as natural as a summer shower. Her face is a book. Read it for two hours and know the triumph and pain...
...Owen Ullmann, senior news editor at Businessweek's Washington bureau, describes Rubin as a "moderate on economic policy and a liberal on social policy," noting on the one hand his advocacy of "pragmatic fiscal policies" friendly to Wall Street and on the other his support for programs to combat urban poverty...
Although Rubin was initially caught off-guard by the Mexican peso devaluation, he managed to string together a series of policy successes, according to Ullmann and Levy--most notably, the circumvention of the federal debt cap on government spending--which infuriated Republicans in Congress and led some to consider impeachment proceedings against...
...Rubin] has started a losing streak," Ullmann says...