Face to Face

Name: Face to Face
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Released: April 5, 1976
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Aino Taube, Erland Josephson, Gösta Ekman, Gunnar Björnstrand, Helene Friberg

1976

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: April 5, 1976 | R

Starring: Aino Taube, Erland Josephson, Gösta Ekman, Gunnar Björnstrand, Helene Friberg, Kristina Adolphson, Liv Ullmann, Marianne Aminoff, Sven Lindberg, Ulf Johansson

Summary: A married couple of psychiatrists has their relationship tested when one suffers a mental breakdown.

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy

Rating: R

Runtime: 114 min

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Face to Face is an extremely intense experience from start to finish, due in large part to Ullmann's performance as she powerfully expresses a range of emotions seldom seen in American films. Read full review

Vincent Canby

Bergman creates a stunning picture not only of personal anxiety but also of the fury that may exist just below the surface of any perfect state. Read full review

The acting is intense, as you would expect from Ullmann and Josephson, working under a director who was coming to terms with his own breakdown in this film; and the nightmare imagery (washed-out backgrounds clashing vividly with stark colours) delivers a strong jolt to the subconscious. Read full review

Roger Ebert

A confused and sometimes overwrought new treatment of the director's most obsessive theme, suicide. Read full review

Jay Cocks

This is a strange, stormy period for Ingmar Bergman. Read full review

Budd Wilkins

Face to Face feels scattershot and incomplete, never adequately establishing connections between characters, motivations for significant actions, or even the simple causalities of time and space. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Ingmar Bergman at his most painful, pretentious, and empty. Read full review

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