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SE 1984, R: Ingmar Bergman mit Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, Lena Olin, 75 Min, OmeU

Ironically, this coda to Bergman's cinema career received some of the best reviews of any of his films. Andrew Sarris called it 'one of Bergman's greatest films. He has attained a sublimity of self-revelation in this masterpiece such as few artists have achieved in any medium.' Richard Corliss (Time Magazine) said it was 'as direct, serene and human as any he has made.'

A spare, pellucid work featuring three actors in one set, After the Rehearsal is a far-reaching meditation on life and theater and the connections between the two. Erland Josephson plays a theater director who is rehearsing Strindberg's A Dream Play; Ingrid Thulin, his former star, now a ravaged alcoholic who has been assigned a small role; and Lena Olin, the ambitious young female lead. The solitary musings and incendiary encounters of these characters illuminate a world which Bergman both loves and fears: that of the bare stage.