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Liv Ullmann plays Dr. Jenny Isakson, a psychiatrist who is taking a vacation while her husband Dr. Erik Isakson (Sven Lindberg) is elsewhere. Haunted by visions of an old woman, Jenny suffers from profound, inexplicable depression. Desperately in search of a escape from her doldrums, she has an affair with married doctor Tomas Jacobi (Erland Josephson). This only serves to spark an attack of hysteria for Jenny. Again visited by hallucinations of the old woman, she attempts suicide. While
R, 2 hr. 16 min.
Drama, Horror, Art House & International, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Jan 1, 1976 Wide
All Critics (8) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (3) | DVD (2)
Mr. Bergman is more mysterious, more haunting, more contradictory than ever, though the style of the film has never been more precise, clear, levelheaded.
This is a strange, stormy period for Ingmar Bergman.
Ingmar Bergman at his most painful, pretentious, and empty.
Bergman has put in the Freudian asides and fireworks for his own reasons but great director that he is, he hasn't in the process stood between Liv Ullmann and the camera.
Bergman stays close on [Ullmann's] face for long portions of this 136-minute movie, and she finds its key: she never acts crazy.
While Olive Films should be commended for making this hitherto hard-to-see late-period Bergman available, only die-hard completists (and, possibly, masochists) should bother to face off against Face to Face.
Cries out for Madeline Kahn to step in, cigarette in hand, and inquire, "Phallic-un zymbol?"
An extremely intense experience from start to finish, due in large part to Ullmann's performance as she powerfully expresses a range of emotions seldom seen in American films.
An Ingmar Bergman film with Liv Ulmann in a tour de force performance of a woman whose breakdown brings her a close encounter with her inner anguish
The Greeks were the first to understand it: the best dramatic performances are given by women because they have a way of letting out every emotion with the most compelling force. Bergman also understood this and I think his best movies are those that star women in tense dramatic situations: Persona, Cries and Whispers,
December 13, 2009Super Reviewer
"Face to Face" falls short of the best Ingmar Bergman films, despite a harrowing, virtuosic performance from Liv Ullman.The plot is minimal, and has the unfortunate air of Bergman just laboring to contrive new ways to make a character miserable (this is not the first time I've had this reaction). Ullman is Jenny, a
November 5, 2009Super Reviewer
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