“‘Searching for Ingmar Bergman’ is one of the better documentaries about a legendary filmmaker.”

| Oct 1, 2022

The film doesn't provide any new information for those already familiar with Bergman's life and work, though some of the interviewees are insightful.

| Mar 11, 2020

The documentary delves into the vital and artistic contradictions that orbited Bergman. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2019

Flirting with the cliche, its constants circulate through a story animated by the detective [director Margarethe] Von Trotta and by original revelations about his ego, his cinephilia, his legacy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2019

The film follows its own interesting directions, mixing up footage from Bergman's films and archival material with thoughtful interviews with Bergman collaborators.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2019

Von Trotta builds a film that's a bit like a motorbike with sidecar; she's off an an adventure, and we're invited to hop in and sit shotgun for it all.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 29, 2019

It feels insightful but leaves a nagging feeling of surface-level psychology. Perhaps this is a harsh reading, but what we're left with is nonetheless a phantom -- a spectral silhouette where a person should be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 17, 2019

Von Trotta film is a must-see for fans and film history buffs.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 21, 2018

Margarethe von Trotta's new documentary is a handsome, if occasionally thin, look at the work and life of one of cinema's great artists.

| Dec 15, 2018

There are certainly worse ways to spend an afternoon than watching a bunch of brilliant artists talk about their favorite Bergman pictures.

| Dec 14, 2018

Peripatetic and provocative...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 13, 2018

Searching for Ingmar Bergman is both accessible for those unfamiliar with Bergman's work and as resoundingly complicated as the man himself.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Dec 5, 2018

If you love cinema, then you must love Ingmar Bergman, and this documentary will justify your love.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 3, 2018

More and more about acknowledging that Bergman wasn't a great person... which Searching basically shrugs off because artists, right?

| Nov 29, 2018

Bergman fans will love this film, but the great thing about "Searching for Ingmar Bergman" is that budding cineastes who are curious about his work will find much value in it as well.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 28, 2018

Most intriguing is a long chat with French writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve...

| Nov 16, 2018

That von Trotta has made her own uniquely inviting tour of his triumphs, anguishes, and longstanding themes - in essence a roomy portrait of the artist as an engaged, fallible searcher - is its own gift of sorts, from one acolyte of cinema to another.

| Nov 9, 2018

Little here will surprise cineastes but much of it will charm them.

| Nov 9, 2018

A chatty and enjoyable but decidedly nondefinitive look at one of the cinema's most acclaimed, influential auteurs.

| Nov 9, 2018

It's a piece both thorough and enchanting -- and although some voices one might have hoped to hear within it are notably silent, it's a must for Bergman fans.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2018