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Nebs
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 Ansiktet [The Magician] The Magician Quote: The Magician is a 1958 film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Its original Swedish title is Ansiktet, which means "face", and it was released theatrically as The Face in the UK, although video releases have used the U.S. title.
The film stars Max von Sydow as a traveling magician named Albert Vogler. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople request that Vogler's troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientifically-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler has a few tricks up his sleeve.
The film was distantly inspired by G. K. Chesterton's play called Magic which Bergman claimed to be a favourite of his. Bergman actually staged a theatre production of "Magic" in Swedish at one point.
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Re: Ansiktet [The Magician] A sort of magic trick of a movie, in that Bergman has as many tricks up his sleeve as Vogler. The whole film can be thought of as a defence of art (specifically magic, but really film), and in that way Bergman is like the illusionist himself, conjuring mood and suspense out of thin air. It's a highly artificial film, and not everything can be explained away as one of Vogler's illusions. The lengthy scene in the attic, full of atmosphere and tension and spookiness, attests to this.
Still, it really feels like a lesser Bergman, and the ridiculous ending nearly ruins the whole thing. It's like something out of the Keystone Cops or something.
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