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Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words(Jag är Ingrid)

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Sweden, Denmark, Germany · 2015
1h 54m
Director Stig Björkman
Starring Alicia Vikander, Isabella Rossellini, Roberto Rossellini, Isotta Rossellini
Genre Documentary

A personal portrait of mythical and controversial actress Ingrid Bergman based on her many home movies and diaries. In collaboration with her daughter, Isabella Rossellini, this is a captivating look behind the scenes of the remarkable life of a young Swedish girl who became one of the most celebrated actresses of American and World cinema.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young

The portrait that emerges is intimate — perhaps too intimate for film lovers who might have preferred to hear more about the star’s working methods, and fewer details about her husbands and kids.

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Slant Magazine by Elise Nakhnikian

It highlights the potent dichotomies that, combined with Bergman's relatively unmediated beauty, made the actress luminescent both on and off screen.

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New York Post by Farran Smith Nehme

There isn’t a lot here about her films, or great performances, but this is two hours of Ingrid Bergman, much of it rarely seen before. I’m not about to complain.

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Variety by Jay Weissberg

The lack of any significant investigation into performance styles is acutely felt, particularly given the very different methods of her major directors.

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Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

She is revealed in all her complexity by Mr. Björkman’s film, in which passages from his subject’s letters, notes and diaries are read by the fine young Swedish actress Alicia Vikander. “I don’t demand much,” the film quotes her as saying. “I just want everything.” She got a lot, and gave immeasurably more.

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The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

Part of what makes In Her Own Words so pleasurable is that it’s so insistently celebratory, despite the traumas and hurts that trickle in. To that upbeat end, it tends to soften and even elide some of the thornier passages in Bergman’s life.

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The Playlist by Nick Schager

The use of the actress’ own archival material in 'In Her Own Words' results in a tribute to both her titanic career, and to her belief in the movies’ capacity to safeguard the past, and to maintain it long after its makers are gone.

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Observer by Rex Reed

A creature of impulse to the end, she was a woman who saved everything—from lace valentines and old passports to Oscars and tear-stained divorce papers. How lucky we are she can share them with us now. She marched to her own drummer, and the beat goes on.

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