The Touch

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chris w 7 7 7 7 7 7 5 5 5 5 = 62 The worst film of Bergman to me. Such a disappointment. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review jack c way underrated in Bergman's cannon. It's not great, but not definitely not bad by any stretch. It's just a nice infidelity story that if it were made by anyone else than Bergman would be a masterpiece. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review eric b Director Ingmar Bergman made only two English-language films, "The Touch" (1971) and "The Serpent's Eye" (1977). Neither are well-regarded, and this doesn't seem coincidental. The dialogue in "The Touch" is uncomfortably stiff, and even the otherwise garrulous Elliott Gould sounds awkward delivering it. And his character is a mess. He's ridiculously brutal and tempestuous in some scenes, and unnaturally restrained in the rest. Essentially a three-character film, "The Touch" follows an affair between Gould and beautiful Bibi Andersson, while her academic husband (Max Von Sydow) seems too wrapped up in work to notice. Andersson doesn't seem compatible with either man, and there's little reason to root for either pairing to win out. Even the cinematography and score aren't up to Bergman's usual standards. Bedroom scenes bring good news and bad news: Andersson's perfect breasts and Gould's furry back. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A flawed and lifeless picture that rarely showcases what made Bergman Bergman. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member “The Touch” by Ingmar Bergman (1971) is a film about how the very experience of personal love can heal emotional trauma. Lover as a psychotherapist is not an easy role - in passionate love there is not enough distance for disinterested observation and understanding. But Karin (Bibi Andersson) is able to do the impossible – she transforms the very area of love between two into a magic point of sharing wisdom through her enduring and inexhaustible vulnerability. Her love toward her younger partner in existential encounter is a model of psychological wholeness – it includes romantic, sexual, motherly, purely emotional and intellectual aspects in tune with one another. Bergman demonstrates that sometimes separation of lovers is a victory of love, not a defeat. “The Touch” is Bergman’s “Hiroshima Mon Amour” – another film about personal love as psychotherapy. After finishing watching this film you again and again return to the meaning of the characters’ actions and emotions and the film’s visual symbolism, and understand more about their personalities and human life as an incredibly rich and beautiful philosophical drama. Please, visit www.actingpitpolitics to read articles about Bergman’s “Through Glass Darkly” (with analysis of shots from the film), and also analysis of films by Godard, Bunuel, Kurosawa, Alain Tanner, Resnais, Pasolini, Cavani, Bertolucci and Fassbinder. BY Victor Enyutin Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member <a></a> <img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/auteurs_production/stills/7439/original.jpg?1289446646" width="240" border="0" /> Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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