The Serpent's Egg

Não é um filme nada fácil....mas adentrando na história real da época, ele consegue ganhar contornos bem maiores.

A huge disappointment by Bergman's lofty standards... but a perfectly enjoyable cinematic romp by just about anybody else's. Confused, confusing, peculiarly paced and downright ridiculous in places... and lumbered with a woefully mis-cast lead performance from David Carradine too... but I still really enjoyed it once I'd come to terms with the fact that this simply wasn't intended to be another Persona or Winter Light.

Bergman's THE SERPENT'S EGG, while not usually classified as one of his better films, is a beautifully shot and acted motion picture.

A beautifully shot, depressingly rich motion picture, The Serpent's Egg is my first Bergman and I'm impressed already.

The ending provides some saving grace for this movie, but overall it is a disappointment, largely because it is not an Ingmar Bergman movie. Yes, it says directed by Bergman, but the movie is too Americanized and less complex than Bergman's masterpieces and you can kind of tell that Bergman wasn't putting in his full effort.

A narrativa perde o ritmo durante muitos momentos do filme, com um roteiro bem irregular e decepcionante. E se David Carradine aparece correto, Liv Ullmann trabalha bem abaixo de seu nível habitual.

A very different kind of film from Ingmar Bergman, made in his exile from Sweden when he was falsely accused of tax evasion. He's given an abnormally big budget and does a period piece, a cautionary tale of 1923 Berlin. I really enjoyed the work of David Carradine, Liv Ullmann, Gert Frobe and James Whitmore, and it's worth seeing especially if you like works such as Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz or Fosse's Cabaret. Just don't go into it expecting a typical Bergmanesque film and you won't be disappointed.

Ingmar Bergman has always made good movies. But unfortunately, "The Serpent's Egg" is not one of them.

David Carradine didn't strike me as the man for this role. I just couldn't feel anything besides a cetain anguish about the fact of not feeling anything, and that is saying a lot coming from a film directed by Bergman -the great portrayer of human condition. I was certainly amazed by the whole plot but not by the treatment of the story full of strange cuts and weak performances.

Bergman had a misstep with his one and only Hollywood film; I found it slow and shallow and it has the look of a film by a lesser filmmaker than Ingmar.