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***BIO-DOC FINALLY DOES JUSTICE TO SEPARATE THE ACTRESS AND THE WOMAN***
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02/23/23
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Fascinating documentary of one of the all-time greats.
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01/18/23
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Ingrid Bergman has always made it so clear that she was able to live other lives, not even her children dared to take on the role of mother.
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words, through her own title, wishes to give the main idea of ??the documentary, besides a posthumous tribute made by the person who is alive, her desire is that the central figure (Bergman) Own and pictures too. Such images were, therefore, a confessable passion of the actress, who manifested herself as a child when her father recorded her daughter on a daily basis.
After her father's death, Ingrid continued the records on her own, altering only the order of her captures, it was she, who now assumed the records of various moments and of the various people she met in her life.
Directed by the Swedish Stig Björkman, the documentary partially fulfills its promise, and the reason is soon unattainable, since without the presence of Bergman to talk about his life and also by the focus that the actress directed his letters and his diary, almost was little About his career, about his work and what causes a certain astonishment, since this was notoriously his greatest pleasure and where he felt happier. His records were largely concerned with the death of his mother and his brothers at an early age, and of the only figure he had left, but also of his father. Then his records are focused on the love life followed by the life of the four children, these being, figures that add a great part and time in the writing of the actress.
Thus Bergman's words presented through a rich collection of images and home movies, is the strongest and most interesting element of the documentary, which extracts through interviews, archives and diaries of the Swedish star, the voice (own) Of the figure-character.
The lack of any significant research on performance styles is appreciably felt, particularly due to the very different methods of its principal directors: George Cukor, Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Rossellini, Jean Renoir, Stanley Donen, Ingmar Bergman. There is some slight personality analysis - she was led, she was shy, "love came through the lens of the camera," she was brave - and the four children painted an attractive portrait of her largely absent mother. However, the psychological depth, Bjorkman, maker of documentaries like "Ingmar Bergman" and "Lars von Trier", barely goes beyond the level of a portrait of the Channel Biography. As such, Bergman is actually very difficult to read, and we are drawn to it even more because of it.
With so much reference material at his disposal, Björkman can not overcome this mystery entirely, but what he does quite elegantly is to explore the mixed feelings of these four surviving children, all of which make it clear how fun it was and also give Light for the mother's felt absence at the desire of the actress in love with the craft.
Perhaps there is nothing radically new to those with some knowledge of Ingrid Bergman's story of many other biographical TV portraits, but this is still a worthy door-to-call for all the curious about one of the greatest icons of cinema.
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01/28/23
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Movie night with Iris.
Film fans will be disappointed in that Hitchcock and Casablanca get little insight. However through intimate letters and home movies we get an affecting portrait. A true star who loved often, lived life on her own terms; and was pilloried for it. Deeply affected by the loss of her own parents, even her children were sometimes discarded in that pursuit.
Special mention to the atmospheric score, this is a documentary of the highest class.
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02/25/23
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Every ten years, movie starlett Ingrid Bergman changed her life: countries, husbands, studios, directors and sometimes children. She loved life, and lived it to the fullest, often to the chagrin of complacent society, but always to the utter delight of the paparazzi.
In an exhaustive two-hours, Stig Bjorkman gathers together endless streams of photographs, film clips, home movies and diary passages, from movie's biggest packrat. We are whisked from Sweden, to America, to Italy, to some island that I can't remember anymore. It's all quite dizzying. Her children speak fondly of her joie de vivre, and the all too brief time she actually spent raising them.
Bergman was truly an original, an actor who sandwiched a couple of Oscar nods with an eight year "penance" exile, for her indiscretions.
It's all rather engrossing, for about an hour. But rather repetitive after that.
In the end, this document is but a very large canvas brimming with juicy stories, desperately in need of a ruthless editor.
- hipCRANK
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03/30/23
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Excellent documentary on a great movie star/There was complete cooperation with her children (who adored her)/Used were letters, juornals, and home movies back to her childhood/For movie buffs this is a must
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02/26/23
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