This may be the first time I’ve seen a Bergman film and just… didn’t care. I get what this movie is doing (I guess) I just don’t see the point. Distant artist hallucinates? Is that really all this is? I tried watching with the commentary track but the “expert” they had was a real putz who would just summarize what was happening in each shot. “Now we see them walking along the rocks.” I love the other Bergman films of this era like Shame and Persona, but this just escaped me. I’ll try again in a few years.
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Jordan Hoffman is a New York-based writer and film critic working for The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Thrillist, Times of Israel, NY Daily News and elsewhere.
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