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...most irritating structural fault of the film is Bergman's repeated use of heavily symbolic dreamsequences. This is a departure for him, and an unlucky one. Earlier films such as Persona do contain sequences, such as the nocturnal mirror scene, that hang enigmatically between imagination, dream and reality. In Face to Face, the ambiguity is stripped away, leaving a boring and oversimplified didacticism...
...technical level, Christopher Harding's direction is sloppy at times--poor blocking occasionally obscures the central characters, and last Friday technical hitches abounded. That particular night, no less than two suitcases, a mirror, two bottles and a fruit bowl all fell, and the transitions between scenes were often slow and clumsy...
...Stranger in the Mirror, Sheldon...
Another truth concerns the child's profound craving for the miraculous. The very young live in an animistic universe, where chairs have souls and conversations take place with dolls and trees. Fairy tales mirror these credences -but place them in perspective. Through the nerves the child learns that a kick at a door hurts the foot, not the door. Through the narratives a child understands that the supernatural belongs, in the words of the Grimms' Frog Prince, "in the old days, when wishing still helped." When actuality intrudes too abruptly upon the child's world, the price...
SELF-PORTRAIT IN A CONVEX MIRROR by JOHN ASHBERY 83 pages. Viking...