82-year-old Ingmar Bergman takes one of the most painful, shameful episodes of his own life and, writing for director Liv Ullmann, transmutes it into magical, brilliant artistry.
Liv Ullmann, directing her second Bergman screenplay (after 1997’s “Private Confessions”), extracts every nuance from the tantalizing material.
As far as I'm concerned, the fact that Bergman is finally getting around to asking himself questions he now realizes he should have asked long ago is not sufficient enough premise for a movie. The answers may be news to Bergman, but the rest of us might just want to opt for divorce.
Production Company
Classic,
Nordisk Film & TV-Fond,
Norsk Rikskringkasting (NRK),
RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana,
Rai Cinema,
SVT Drama,
Svensk Filmindustri (SF),
Svensk Filmindustri,
Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI),
Yleisradio (YLE),
Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)