3/10
It doesn't work
29 May 2021
"All these women" was Bergman's attempt at comedy farce. It doesn't work. The story is a visit of a biographer (Cornelius) to the mansion lived in by a great cellist (Felix). It open's after the cellist's death, as we see the cellist's wife and six mistresses visit his casket and say the same thing. The film then jumps back four days when the biographer began his visit and follows his interactions with all the women and others, though he never gets to talk to the cellist.

This was Bergman's first color film, but he never liked it. There is occasional language in the film that sounds like Bergman, but the whole thing jumps around with nothing to sustain it. Some writers suggest that Bergman is represented by Felix, and that the women in the film represent the many women in Bergman's life. Could be, but it doesn't really matter.

It doesn't work.
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