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Shame

Skammen

1968

Ingmar Bergman

Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Sigge Fürst, Gunnar Björnstrand ...

7.7

3,332

Drama. War 'Shame' probes the atrocities of war -both internal and external- as a young couple struggles to survive while the world around them crumbles into chaos.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[An] angry and bleak film (...) [It] does not deliver a message in any formal way, but simply offers people and their lives and leaves us to conclude what we choose (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Renata Adler The New York Times	"Dry, beautifully photographed, almost arid in its inspiration (...) There is no strength in it."	NEU
United Kingdom	Tom Milne Time Out	"Presenting war with shattering power as a blindly destructive force, Bergman uses it brilliantly as a background to the real pain (...) A masterpiece"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"Despite its evident sincerity, the film seems less like an indictment of intellectual and artistic irresponsibility than a quiet mea culpa."	NEU
United Kingdom	BBC	"[A] subtle anti-war film"	POS

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