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Shame

Shame (Skammen)

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The lives of a farming couple on the remote island of Gotland are upended when an invasion begins and war arrives. As they navigate the difficulties of everyday life under artillery fire, they must soon adapt to occupation by the enemy force, and witness the reactions of their fellow townspeople to the war.

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Time Out by Derek Adams

It ends with one of the cinema's most awesomely apocalyptic visions: not the cheeriest of films, but a masterpiece.

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Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

It is a question without an answer in Shame, which does not deliver a message in any formal way, but simply offers people and their lives and leaves us to conclude what we choose.

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The New Yorker by Richard Brody

Ingmar Bergman stretches a classic Bergman couple on the tightening rack of war.

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New York Times by Renata Adler

It is at Bergman's wits' end.

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Chicago Reader by Dave Kehr

Despite its evident sincerity, the film seems less like an indictment of intellectual and artistic irresponsibility than a quiet mea culpa.