The first establishing shot in the film follows a subjective shot, consistent with Bergman form that emphasizes subjective experience even while thematically concerned with big ideas like God. Persons, characters,…
The original Swedish title is The Face, and that’s more fitting. Diegetic conversations are all about faces, particularly the face of the the magician. Faces convey truth and deception, they bear…
Along with his fellow Cahiers du Cinema critics, Jean-Luc Godard argued that being a film “auteur” meant that your films must have the imprint of your own distinct style of…
