Ansikte mot Ansikte (Face to Face) (1976)
Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 10
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 2
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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
Jan 1, 1976 Wide
Cast
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Liv Ullmann
Dr. Jenny Isaksson -
Erland Josephson
Dr. Tomas Jacobi -
Gunnar Bjornstrand
Grandpa -
Kari Sylwan
Maria -
Sven Lindberg
Dr. Erik Isaksson -
Tore Segeicke
The Lady -
Ulf Johansson
Dr. Helmuth Wankel -
Kristina Adolphson
Veronica -
Gösta Ekman, Jr.
Mikael Stromberg -
Marianne Aminoff
Jenny's mother -
Helene Friberg
Anna -
Birger Malmsten
Rapist -
Lena Olin
Shop assistant -
Sif Ruud
Elisabeth Wankel -
Göran Stangertz
Second Rapist -
Aino Taube
Grandmother -
Goesta Pruezelius
Jenny's father
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All Critics (10) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (8) | 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.
Suffocating psychodrama.
This dramatically intense drama about depression and nervous breakdown garnered director Ingmar Bergman and actress Liv Ullmann well-deserved Oscar nominations.
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
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Foreign Titles
- Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte) (DE)
- Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte) (UK)


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