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    After the Rehearsal

    R1984 · Drama · 1h 12m

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  1. Roger Ebert January 01, 1984. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Ingmar Bergman's "After the Rehearsal" seems to be as simple and direct as a tape recording of actual conversations, and yet look at the thickets of interpretation it has inspired in its critics. After seeing it, I thought I understood the film entirely.

  2. After the Rehearsal received strongly positive reviews from critics, garnering a 91% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Vincent Canby wrote that it "may well be another Bergman classic." Roger Ebert gave it a full four stars and argued that the work "consists of unadorned surfaces concealing fathomless depths."

  3. Rakel has died, after being a great actress, an alcoholic and an abuser of Anna. While still talking Henrik goes back in time in sort of a dream and has an extended conversation with Rakel on the same stage while a young Anna sits silently and observes. Rakel tries to seduce Henrik while they argue, but he rejects her.

  4. Jan 12, 2021 · This is perhaps why, despite receiving strong (sometimes even glowing) reviews when it was new, the film has largely disappeared from view, just part of the vast gap between Fanny and Alexander and Saraband, 21 years later. A great pity, because After the Rehearsal strikes me as an essential part of the director's canon, with its slight running ...

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  6. Jun 21, 1984 · Though ''After the Rehearsal,'' produced for television, runs a scant 72 minutes, it's as much a survey of the human condition as Strindberg's play, even if that condition is seen exclusively from ...

    • Ingmar Bergman
  7. Apr 20, 2018 · The first is After the Rehearsal, based on a television movie Bergman wrote and directed in 1984. It is a multilayered, brutally raw psychosexual drama about two actresses in the life of a controlling, emotionally manipulative, and rapacious theater director named Hendrik (the formidable Gijs Scholten van Ashat, who, fascinatingly, makes ...

  8. With this spare chamber piece, set in an empty theater, Ingmar Bergman returned to his perennial theme of the permeability of life and art. Lingering after a rehearsal for August Strindberg’s A Dream Play (a touchstone for the filmmaker throughout his career), eminent director Henrik (Erland Josephson) enters into a frank and flirtatious conversation with his up-and-coming star, Anna (Lena ...

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