What's Ullmann's best film outside Bergman-territory?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Liv Ullmann
Renaldo Matlin — 22 years ago(September 03, 2003 09:14 AM)
What excactly is Liv Ullmann's best film when not counting the masterpieces she has done for Bergman?
A lot of her international movies, sad to say, where flops but I surely don't blame her. Among my favorites of the ones I have seen I feel the following are worth mentioning: "Gaby: A True Story" (1987, all though she receives top billing I still don't think we see enough of here in the film), "A Bridge Too Far" (1977) and of course "The Emigrants" (1971) and "The New Land" (1972). I also liked the Bronson-movie "Cold Sweat" (1970) and the thriller "The Night Visitor" (1970). -
kip_9 — 22 years ago(November 02, 2003 06:34 PM)
She made a very good film with Maximillian Schell called The Rose Garden. Sh111ce played a strong-willed lawyer defending a Jew who had recognized and attacked a former SS officer from the concentration camps 50 years earlier.
She also made a film called Mindwalk which is talky but quite good. Really gets you thinking.
Does anyone know if her film "Face to Face" is available for purchase? I've never seen it and have heard that her performance is the best acting performance by a woman ever to grace the screen. -
Renaldo Matlin — 22 years ago(November 18, 2003 10:29 AM)
Yes, "The Rose Garden" is a good film. Also "Gaby - A True Story" but she really only had a supporting role there, despite being promoted as the lead. She of course was the only female star in Richard Attenborough's epic WW2-pic "A Bridge Too Far", but it can't really be called a "Liv Ullmann-film" with a cast including Anthony Hopkins, Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Sean Connery etc etc
I have searched around the net and can't seem to find "Face to Face" either on region 1 or region 2 DVD or PAL or NTSC vhs. It's not even available in Bergman's home-country Sweden, or in Ullmann's home-country Norway (which is my home-country too)! Let's hope someone does something about it soon. -
Wilde_child — 21 years ago(June 03, 2004 06:21 PM)
Well, I like
The Abdication
a lot. Good drama, excellent performance.
She plays Queen Christina (same role played by Garbo, decades ago). A must see film.
Laura
"All the best people have bad chests and bone diseases. It's all frightfully romantic"- Juliet- HC -
WarpedRecord — 17 years ago(December 14, 2008 05:48 PM)
"Mind Walk" (1990), with Sam Waterston and John Heard, is also quite good. It's a bit like listening to a philosophy lecture, so you have to be prepared to wrap your brain around some heady dialogue.
It's interesting that you mentioned "Cold Sweat" with Charles Bronson, which I saw a couple weeks ago. That seems to be one of Liv Ullmann's more conventional films. It's kind of convoluted, but the performances are good. I also saw "The Night Visitor" recently, which was better than I expected.