Face to Face feels scattershot and incomplete, never adequately establishing connections between characters, motivations for significant actions, or even the simple causalities of time and space.
Face to Face(Ansikte mot Ansikte)
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Sweden · 1976
Rated R · 1h 54m
Director Ingmar Bergman
Starring Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Aino Taube, Gunnar Björnstrand
Genre Drama, Fantasy
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A sensitive exploration of the tragic irony of the psychiatrist suffering with mental illness.
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Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Ingmar Bergman at his most painful, pretentious, and empty.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
A confused and sometimes overwrought new treatment of the director's most obsessive theme, suicide.
The New York Times by Vincent Canby
Bergman creates a stunning picture not only of personal anxiety but also of the fury that may exist just below the surface of any perfect state.
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