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Trollflöjten (The Magic Flute) (1975)

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A longtime pet project of Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Magic Flute was finally brought to the screen in 1973. While the opera itself is offered in a highly stylized and theatrical fashion, the fluidity of the camerawork turns the affair into a purely cinematic experience. Sung in Swedish, the libretto remains as ever a gentle parody of the initiation ceremonies of the Masons, offered as an other-worldly fantasy involving a kidnapped princess (Irma

May 16, 2000

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Using the opera's timeless whimsy and inventiveness, the movie replicates a performance on the stage that is so good that it almost makes you forget the participants' ABBA-like hairstyles.

December 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | Comment
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Ingmar Bergman's mounting of the Mozart masterpiece is appealingly conventional.

August 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
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An absolutely dazzling film entertainment, so full of beauty, intelligence, wit, and fun that it becomes a testimonial not only to man's possibilities but also to his high spirits.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
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What Bergman does is to convey the actual magic of theater at its best.

May 20, 2009 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Comment
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It's as pleasing to look at as hear.

February 15, 2006 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
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A particular delight for opera fans, though colorfully engaging to everyone.

July 31, 2004 Comment
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If filmed opera seems a contradiction -- no more than an excuse to immortalize a performance -- this production is the exception to the rule.

May 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

This film is stunning to look at, with wonderful sets, interesting costumes, and yet another work of gorgeous cinematography by Bergman fave, Sven Nykvist.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | Comment
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The opera works surprisingly well in Swedish, and, of course, Bergman's adaptation of this wonderful piece is one of a kind.

February 6, 2008
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Everyone else is mental! Giving this film such high ratings. I am a fan of Mozart and I have a high tolerance for lengthy foreign films and musicals, bu this was near unbearable. I usual enjoy the songs from this opera, but they are now banned for a year, because of the bad memories from this film. It's so long and for

September 29, 2008
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