100
TV Guide Magazine
Face to Face is 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.
Face to Face (Ansikte mot Ansikte)
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- Sweden
- 1976
- · 114m
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Liv Ullmann,
Erland Josephson,
Aino Taube,
Gunnar Björnstrand,
Kristina Adolphson,
Marianne Aminoff
Genre
Drama,
Fantasy
A sensitive exploration of the tragic irony of the psychiatrist suffering with mental illness.
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90
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.
80
Time Out
The acting is intense, as you would expect from Ullmann and Josephson, working under a director who was coming to terms with his own breakdown in this film; and the nightmare imagery (washed-out backgrounds clashing vividly with stark colours) delivers a strong jolt to the subconscious.
75
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
A confused and sometimes overwrought new treatment of the director's most obsessive theme, suicide.
60
Time
This is a strange, stormy period for Ingmar Bergman.
50
Slant Magazine
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.
40
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Ingmar Bergman at his most painful, pretentious, and empty.
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