Saturday, February 5, 2011

The Magician

Ingmar Bergman

The Swede's revenge against all those critics who sneered at his work in the 50's. Nice looking but very affected film that let him sneer back.

Max von Sydow's character was pretty hard to take as he spent most of the film glowering as a mute...radiating hatred and scorn. All the other characters came across as caricatures...the whole project was too stylized to reflect reality as we know it.

Not one of the master's better efforts.

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