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  • Summary: As one of the leading auteurs of the 20th century, Ingmar Bergman made more than 50 features and has had an extraordinary impact on film making. This documentary visits him at home on the Swedish island of Faro, where he offers his final, brilliant thoughts on his masterpieces "Persona" and "Cries and Whispers," and the role played in his life and art by fear, love, death, music, humiliation and, in his own words, "the intensely erotic nature of film and theatre." (Film Forum)… Expand

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  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    83
    After a lifetime of flogging the demons of cosmic despair, Ingmar Bergman, at 88, comes off as lean and vigorous in this fascinating memoir-interview.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    80
    Intimate, compelling film.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ed Halter
    50
    As little more than an extended interview, it remains hobbled by determinedly uninspired cinematography and a mundane televisual setup.

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    (9.0) A wonderful work of Bergman. Cinema of the highest quality at the same time philosophical and human as few have managed to make, passing the silence of God as only masters can do.… Expand
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