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Face to Face

1976 · 114 min

A slow, harrowing plunge into a psychiatrist's breakdown, blending dreamlike visions with raw emotional exposure.

Tagline: A woman's most intimate encounter with the one person she didn't know. Herself.
Overview: 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. As her professional responsibilities and personal relationships intersect, she undergoes a breakdown that forces her to confront long-suppressed memories and fears. (Note: This entry refers to the 1976 theatrical feature film (approximately 135 minutes), created by condensing and re-editing the four-part Swedish television miniseries originally produced the same year.)

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: madness
trauma
memory
identity
isolation
Places: hospital
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong

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Action	1
Horror	4
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	2
Tension	7
Darkness	9
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	10

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
Written by: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Aino Taube, Gunnar Björnstrand, Kristina Adolphson, Marianne Aminoff, Gösta Ekman, Helene Friberg
Cinematography: Sven Nykvist
Runtime: 114 min
Country: Sweden, Italy
Languages: Swedish

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