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Face to Face

1976Movie1 h 54 min

75

GreatGoodWatch score

75

GreatGoodWatch score

Rotten Tomatoes

Summary

A psychiatrist temporarily separated from her family begins to experience severe psychological distress while working at a mental hospital and returning to her childhood home.

Good for

Friends night
Thought-provoking
Adults

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You need an uplifting mood
You want fast pacing

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Makes you care deeply.
Breaks your heart.
Weighs on you.
Gets under your skin.
Keeps you on edge.

Not for warmth, laughs or comfort.

The whole fingerprint· the print and its 12 scales

At a glance

Critics vs audiences
Audiences a little warmer than critics (+5)
Critics 74Audiences 79GoodWatch 76
Tomatometer80%
Metascore68
Audience score83%
User score8.0
IMDb7.5
Running time
1 h 54 min
A typical length for dramas, +5 min on the typical 109
typical 109114
Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Reach
Streams in 6 countries, rent or buy in 1 more
Released
1976
April 5, 1976
50 years ago
Genre
Drama
Language
Swedish
Original language
Made in
Sweden
Italy
Rated
No age rating yet.
What's in it
ViolenceMild
Gore, disturbing imagesMild
Frightening scenesModerate
Sex, nudityLittle or none
Dark themesStrong
In white: what the content advisories name. Levels from the title analysis.
Viewing guide
AdultsFriends NightPartner WatchSolo WatchThought-Provoking
Not listed for kids or family movie night.
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Directing · 2
Ingmar Bergman Director, Writer
Kerstin Eriksdotter Script Supervisor
Production · 3
Dino De Laurentiis Producer
Lars-Owe Carlberg Producer
Katinka Faragó Production Manager
Camera · 4
Sven Nykvist Director of Photography
Arne Carlsson Still Photographer
Bengt Franzen Assistant Camera
Lars Karlsson Assistant Camera
Editing · 1
Siv Lundgren Editor
Sound · 2
Owe Svensson Sound
Käbi Laretei Musician
Art · 3
Peter Kropénin Production Design
Anne Hagegård Production Design
Anna Asp Property Master
Costume & Make-Up · 2
Maggie Strindberg Costume Design
Cecilia Drott Makeup Artist

Tropes

Chewing the Sceneryin 827 titlesLiv Ullmann, which may be a case of Tropes Are Not Bad. Bergman himself was later critical of it.All 12 tropes

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