All people, especially actors, play their own roles and wear masks. Do we know what people really think and feel, do they ever tell the truth, or do they just say monologues? These are the thoughts that Ingmar Bergman tries to convey to us in his short television film Efter repetitionen (1984), which says that there are autobiographical
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All people, especially actors, play their own roles and wear masks. Do we know what people really think and feel, do they ever tell the truth, or do they just say monologues? These are the thoughts that Ingmar Bergman tries to convey to us in his short television film Efter repetitionen (1984), which says that there are autobiographical moments in the film. Elderly director Henrik Vogler (Bergman's favorite actor Erland Josefson) often stays after rehearsal in the hall to reflect on the production and then go take a nap in his room. This time he dozed off right at the table, and woke him up, allegedly returned behind a lost bracelet actress Anna (Lena Olin), whom he invited to play in this play. Of course, the bracelet is only an excuse, she just wanted to talk to the director and try to achieve some goals. The fact is that the director is an old friend of her father, moreover, they were both in love with the same actress, the mother of this girl, and both were her lovers. Anna shares her attitude towards her mother, who died several years ago from the effects of alcoholism, says that she hates her. And then the events move away from reality, as the action comes and the mother of Anna Raquel (Ingrid Tulin), from which Henrik could not free himself. She enters the theater and tries to drag Henrik into bed, while Anna is present in the form of a teenage girl sitting silently on the couch. There is practically no action in the film, it is a conversational film, and conversations with the real and otherworldly character are interrupted by Henrik’s thoughts, which often differ from what he pronounces. We see how people play their own chosen and constructed roles, how they try to manipulate others, and how the director tells a young actress with whom they play a mini-performance that nothing will come out of their novel, which she is trying to start, and this is in such a chamber film. Nevertheless, I liked the film, the actors played perfectly, especially Josephson, whom I remember from the films “Scenes from Married Life”, its sequels “Sarabanda”, “Fanny and Alexander” and others.
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