The 1976 premiere of Face to Face came at the height of director-screenwriter Ingmar Bergman's career.
Prestigious awards and critical acclaim had made him into a leading name in European art cinema, yet today Face to Face is a largely overlooked and dismissed work.
This book tells the story of its rise and fall.
It presents a new portrait of Bergman as a political artist exploring a new medium with huge public impact: television.
Inspired by Henrik Ibsen, feminism, and alternative psychotherapy, he made a series of portraits of the modern bourgeois family focusing on the plight of women;
Face to Face followed in the tracks of The Lie (1970) and Scenes from a Marriage (1973).
By his workbooks, engagement planners, and other archival material, we can trace his investigation into the heart of repressive family structures to eventually glimpse a way out.
This volume culminates in an extensive study of the two-year process from the first outlines of the screenplay to the reception and aftermath of Face to Face.
It thus offers a unique insight into Bergman's world, his ideas and artistry during a turbulent time in cinema history.
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