Ingmar Bergman's Face to Face
Michael Tapper, "Ingmar Bergman's Face to Face "
English | ISBN: 0231176538 | 2017 | 216 pages | PDF | 1459 KB
English | ISBN: 0231176538 | 2017 | 216 pages | PDF | 1459 KB
The 1976 premiere of Face to Face came at the height of director-screenwriter Ingmar Bergman's career. Prestigious awards and critical acclaim had made him into a leading name in European art cinema, yet today Face to Face is a largely overlooked and dismissed work.
This book tells the story of its rise and fall. It presents a new portrait of Bergman as a political artist exploring a new medium with huge public impact: television. Inspired by Henrik Ibsen, feminism, and alternative psychotherapy, he made a series of portraits of the modern bourgeois family focusing on the plight of women;
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