Original title: Ansikte mot ansikte
Year: 1976
Runtime: 1 hour,54 minutes
Country: Sweden | Italy
Language: Swedish
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Drama | Fantasy

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Cast:
Liv Ullmann … Dr. Jenny Isaksson
Erland Josephson … Dr. Tomas Jacobi
Aino Taube … The Grandmother
Gunnar Björnstrand … The Grandfather
Kristina Adolphson … Nurse Veronica
Marianne Aminoff … Jenny’s mother
Gösta Ekman … Mikael Strömberg
Helene Friberg … Anna
Ulf Johansson … Helmuth Wankel
Sven Lindberg … Jenny’s husband
Jan-Eric Lindquist
Birger Malmsten … Rapist
Sif Ruud … Elisabeth Wankel
Göran Stangertz … Rapist
Lena Olin … Shop assistant

Plot/Synopsis:
Liv Ullmann plays Dr. Jenny Isakson, a psychiatrist who is taking a vacation while her husband Dr. Erik Isakson (Sven Lindberg) is elsewhere. Haunted by visions of an old woman, Jenny suffers from profound, inexplicable depression. Desperately in search of a escape from her doldrums, she has an affair with married doctor Tomas Jacobi (Erland Josephson). This only serves to spark an attack of hysteria for Jenny. Again visited by hallucinations of the old woman, she attempts suicide. While hovering between life and death, she imagines she sees all the people who’ve been influential in her life, and rails against them for causing her neuroses. Only while recovering does she learn who the spectral old woman is and why she is undergoing so harrowing an emotional experience.
Face to face is another example of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman’s masterful direction in order to penetrate into his actors’ psyche. Bergman’s sole intention in his movies is to convey the emotions, the interaction between different personalities and how they swift in the film. He uses long uninterrupted takes in such effect that many times throughout the film someone could get carried away and find itself present in the room with the protagonists. It’s like Sven Nykvist forgets the camera somewhere recording, but the action continues… Bergman’s usual partners are present obviously in Face to Face. Aformentioned cinematographer Sven Nykvist (who by the way has won two Oscars for Bergman’s “Fanny & Alexander” and “Cries and Whispers” and was nominated for “face to face”, does again superb job. But in my opinion the film is worth viewing mostly for Liv Ullmann’s extraordinary performance, mominated for an Oscar as well. There is nothing that I could add, Bergman fans will find the master here in peak form.

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