Movies

July, 1976

Any list of great screen performances compiled from now on will have to save a niche at the very top for Liv Ullmann in Ingmar Bergman's Face to Face. A landmark movie even according to the exalted standards set by Bergman himself, this devastating, impassioned essay on "life, love and death" (that's Bergman's description of his real topic) seems, at first, to be simply a case history spelling out the complete mental crack-up of a competent, successful, happily married lady psychiatris...