The Magic Flute (1975) TV Movie
The Queen of the Night (Birgit Nordin) offers his daughter Pamina (Irma Urrila) to Tamino (Josef Köstlinger), but he has to bring her back from her father and priest Sarastro (Ulrik Cold). She gives a magic flute to Tamino and magic bells to the bird hunter Papageno (Håkan Hagegård), who follows Tamino and wants to find a wife. The duo travels in a journey of love and knowledge. (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Ingmar Bergman
Written By: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Ingmar Bergman, Ragnar Ulfung, Ulrik Cold, Jane Darling, Britt-Marie Aruhn, Josef Köstlinger, Jerker Arvidson, Irma Urrila, Gösta Bäckelin, Håkan Hagegård, Elisabeth Erikson
Genres: Romance, Comedy, Fantasy, Music
AKA: Trollflöjten
Country: Sweden
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The Magic Flute belongs to 13 collections
1. Criterion Collection (collaborative: moderated by caffe - 167 stars)
2. New York Times' The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made (collaborative: moderated by theficionado - 32 stars)
3. Capsules, guest reviews, list candidates... (366weirdmovies) (collaborative: moderated by sesito71 - 4 stars)
4. Opera (collaborative: moderated by djross - 3 stars)
5. Criterion Collection (Blu-ray and 4K) (public: PepeCamello - 3 stars)
6. Sven Nykvist, Cinematographer (collaborative: moderated by CCLZA - 2 stars)
7. Swedish Cinema (collaborative: moderated by Svengali - 2 stars)
8. criticker's underrated (collaborative: moderated by avgcrtckr - 1 star)
9. Djross best musicals (public: djross - 1 star)
10. Roger Ebert's Top 10 Films of 1976 (collaborative)
11. Films that Pauline Kael Actually LIKED!! (collaborative: moderated by wokelstein)
12. Djross 1975 top ten (public: djross)
13. Djross Swedish feature films I've seen (public: djross)
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bof | 71 62nd |
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Bergman and Mozart invite you into a dream. That dream may be a sexist, racist recruitment ad for the masons, but damn, is it ever an effective one. The walls of the old theatre disappear and the music and scenery transports everyone somewhere else.
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djross | 80 91st |
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Men's work aims at the infinite but is threatened by feminine desperation for possession, especially maternal resentment of the father-daughter bond. But glory is also undermined by masculine lust, embodied in the strange power of the repellent yet beguiling black man. Only a true enchantment of male and female virtue via a special instrument can transcend these thirsts for possessive or lustful power and ascend the heights. Bergman's staging emphasises that all this is a cosm(et)ic adornment.
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Mentaculus | 68 48th |
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Admittedly it starts off poor and accelerates in power and interest from there. The integration of the stage and screen is the film's major testament, although Bergman's peculiar use of cinematography and color symbolism does more to reveal (or is it magnify?) the Freemason iconography and ideology in the text.
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DerDude | 8 76th |
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Even though the cinematic direction is surprisingly low-key and allows the opera to unfold, Bergman shows through here and there. I probably would have liked to see a more rhythmic pairing of image and music (Tales of Hoffman might be good example of what I mean), but as far as I am able to judge, this is one of the finest opera performances ever filmed.
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k177105 | 80 60th |
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A classic and straightforward lesson of sublimation as the loyalty to the father's kingly and virtuous control and the rejection of the mother's revengeful power attempts, with its ground in understandings about sexuality just as clear as its tendency of scapegoating by considering the figures of the king and the queen as purely oppositional instead of compositional. Also interesting is the flirting between Papageno and Papagena, full of secular joy. Dramatically effective Bergmanian close-ups.
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| Average Percentile 59.64% from 264 Ratings |  |