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

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

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

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

An absolutely dazzling film entertainment, so full of beauty, intelligence, wit, and fun that it becomes a testimonial not only to man's possibilities but also to his high spirits.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 20, 2003