****
Many times I've seen this refered to as Bergman's "horror movie", which I find just silly, despite the sometimes horror-ish aesthetics. (Max von Sydow's fight with the young boy is particularly affecting and downright terrifying, but it's several other scenes towards the end that earned the film its reputation, I suppose).
This is a story of madness (folie a deux, perhaps), not of the supernatural. Liv's acting is so lovely and warm and her symbiosis-desiring character quite the opposite of her primarily selfish one in Cries and Whispers (Or is it? You have to wonder, since the film seems to make a very deliberate point of being a case of untrustworthy narrator).
I really liked the ending, when she speaks into the camera and then looks away from it at the last moment. Up until that, I had my misgivings, but, overall, I really feel this one achieves what it sets out to do.
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