Jag är Ingrid

If you have any recollection of screen legend Ingrid Bergman, Stig Björkman's 2015 documentary is a must-see simply because it follows her emotionally complex life purely through archival footage and stills (including her own home movies) and her four children none of whom are resentful of her partial abandonment of them. Gratefully there are no film scholars or celebrities (other than true colleagues Sigourney Weaver and Liv Ullmann) remarking on her life and career because the point of the film was to understand her feelings directly through her voice even though it's fellow Swedish actress Alicia Vikander who is reciting Bergman's diary entries. Released on her centenary, the most memorable section was her first Hollywood screen test where her breathtaking natural beauty took hold. The rest of the film made complete sense from there.

There is not much to add if you know something about Ingrid Bergman before. She had a glamorous life in Hollywood but wanted some more, and met the director Rosselini from Italy and there was Love - and some movies.

After a decade in American films, she starred in Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli (1950), following the revelation that she was having an extramarital affair with the director. The affair and then marriage with Rossellini created a scandal in the US that forced her to remain in Europe for several years, when she made a successful Hollywood return in Anastasia (1956), for which she won her second Academy Award

There is so much to tell about her life so I recommend Wikipedia for a more complete story about her life.

During the time with Rosselini she was more or less banned from Hollywood.

Her first husband was Petter Lindström (1937–1950) Sweden

Roberto Rossellini (1950–1957) Italy

Lars Schmidt (1958–1975) Sweden

She died 29 August 1982 (aged 67) London, England Cause of death Breast cancer

She used to stay on a private island outside Fjällbacka on the Swedish west-coast, "Dannholmen" that I visited when I was a teen, but she was not at home, it's a very beautiful island/part of Sweden.

In the Swedish version there is Alicia Vikander that are the teller of this story, and she seems to be another well worthy Swedish actress export to Hollywood, but that is of course up to her.

I cannot disagree more with the post above. Notorious is a well regarded Hitchcock classic. It was Bergman's film and she gave the vest performance from any Hitch films. Journey to Italy is considered the first modern film, a major classic of cinema and hailed by such influential directors as Truffaut, Godard, Rohmer, Scorsese and of course Bazan. Bogie will not be a romantic idol without the radiant and luminous Bergman. Can you picture another major actress at that time in the role of Ilsa? All three films are on the list of Sight and Sound 2012 best films ever poll.

And there are still a large audience for films such as Gas light, spellbound, Anastasia and Autumn sonata.

This documentary representing the life story of a great actress Ingrid Bergman, the tribute to her can be a life changing for you. Besides the glory and fame, her choices that may be for some to hardcore. Can you choose family over career? Can you have them both? Well the director Stig Björkman will take you on bits of her history and reveal some toughs thru the descriptions of Ingrid's four children. I would say this is an inspirational piece and the main point would be a career decision, presented by a true star of the cinema.

My thoughts about the film are the same as Isabella's about the correspondance; I thought there would be a story in here about a woman becoming a star in Hollywood, about struggle and cinema, but its just all children. Which would be fine, if not for Bergman's tendancy to shy away from thinking/writing about the negatives in that relationship, and once even from acting it out. Vague, but hypnotic.