Bergman must have reached a new, serene assurance to have tackled this sensuous, luxuriant opera that has bewildered so many stage directors, and to have brought it off so unaffectedly. It's a whole unfussy production with the bloom still on it.

| Oct 20, 2023

The Magic Flute is a fascinating look into Bergman's thoughts on the pretense of theater and film and the shared DNA between the two.

| Jan 7, 2021

Paradoxically, Bergman has completely re-imagined The Magic Flute as a cinematic work, despite how blatantly theatrical it is in virtually every imaginable respect.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2020

The film doesn't offer much. It's a true version, with some glimmers of irony and good humor, always in between cinema and theater. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 17, 2019

If anything, The Magic Flute gives viewers the clearest window into Bergman's fascination with the otherworldly, as the project allowed him to realize his childhood dream of filming his favorite opera.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 3, 2019

One of the better opera-on-film adaptations.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 21, 2019

Ingmar Bergman's revived 1975 version of Mozart's opera makes an uncharacteristically playful film for him about what is essentially a custody battle fought on a metaphysical level.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2018

While the Mozart purist may take issue with Bergman's conception of The Magic Flute, no one can deny the technical perfection with which the film has been mounted.

| Jul 11, 2018

Ingmar Bergman has never before made a movie so warm, happy and innocent... It's as if all this joy has been building up inside him during the great decade of metaphysical films beginning with Persona.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 9, 2018

The film seems to have been conceived in misunderstandings.

| Apr 4, 2018

It's the most fun you'll have at an opera this side of Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny. No wonder the audience - glimpsed in individual tightly framed shots - seem enraptured.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 21, 2018

Ingmar Bergman's version of Mozart's The Magic Flute isn't his most cinematic work - it's a film version of an opera and was originally shown on Swedish 온라인카지노추천. Nonetheless, there are elements here which echo his other films.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 14, 2018

What Bergman does is to convey the actual magic of theater at its best.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 20, 2009

Using the opera's timeless whimsy and inventiveness, the movie replicates a performance on the stage that is so good that it almost makes you forget the participants' ABBA-like hairstyles.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 7, 2007

The intelligence and clarity of Bergman's The Magic Flute is a marvel.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 1, 2007

Ingmar Bergman's mounting of the Mozart masterpiece is appealingly conventional.

| Aug 1, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2006

It's as pleasing to look at as hear.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 15, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 12, 2005

A particular delight for opera fans, though colorfully engaging to everyone.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2004