Widely considered a failure (by Bergman himself, even) and yet I thought it wasn't that bad. It's very un-Bergman, to be sure. It feels more like a Hitchcock film injected with Bergman's pessimism and darkness. And yes, it's a bit over the top, particularly the ending. And David Carradine isn't very good and one wishes for more scenes with Liv Ullmann. Nonetheless, I thought it was pretty decent.

In "The Magic Lantern," Bergman argues that his error in this film was to set it in what would become an unrecognizable Berlin of the 1920s. In "Images," he concludes that the failure lies deeper, in the incompatibility of the voyeur motif with the story of the two artists. In my own view, this unusual and rather horrifying Bergman film is underappreciated, and not only by Bergman.

Surprisingly not good. It comes across as an art-movie ripoff of _Peeping Tom_ and _The Damned_, complete with Bergman doing a poor imitation of Visconti's visual style in the latter film

Odd Bergman flick with some great, pre-facist, Germany overtones. The ending has a stupid note to it, but it only slightly falters.