Vita privata

This excellent film was based on an script by the Master but was actually directed by Jan Molader, which is the reason it is hard ti find it in IMDB and other sites. It is a TV movie. I saw it today, the image is good but the sound is so, so because the sound format is old. I think. However this has to be one of Gunnel Lindbloms best roles with an amazing performance about a talented woman trapped in a middle class boring and predictable life where husband and wife cannot communicate with one another and have became strangers within their marriage, both feeling a painful alienation. Lindblom's face and acting are a joy to see. The rest of the cast are also very good. If you like Bergman creations this is a film for you.

Ingmar directed this film, in an eagerly anticipated American debut. I remember it in bits and pieces, but it was superb in every way. I do remember Mary Ann Mobley in an intense scene of hysteria and crying. (I believe she was a mistress). I cannot believe that this one-time masterwork by one of the great directors of all time has vanished. Where is it? I do not recall any other Bergman production created directly for American audiences. Certainly, ANY of his works, even the lesser-received ones, are part of a pantheon of important works by a master. If we can find old material from the same era and reproduce it, however non-perfect, we should be able to study this one. Let's find it.