This could be the first superhero franchise that will end up requiring the services of Ingmar Bergman.

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In this gut-wrenching drama, from 1968, Ingmar Bergman stretches a classic Bergman couple on the tightening rack of war.

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It boasts the built-in interest of a script by Ingmar Bergman, dramatizing the courtship and early married life of his parents.

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Ingmar Guandique, 31, was led into the courtroom in handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit, sporting a large tattoo that covered most of his scalp.

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No one would mistake the director John Hamburg for Ingmar Bergman, but his brittle, glossy comedy, despite its intermittently entertaining antics, leaves a long and bitter aftertaste of the haut-bourgeois blues.

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Regardless of whether Mr. von Sydow wins an Oscar, he will no doubt remain best known to serious movie fans as one of the sturdiest pillars in the stock company of actors assembled for stage and screen by the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.

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While the plot may recall other allegorical crossings (such as the one that the Knight, the Squire and the circus family undertake in Ingmar Bergman's film "The Seventh Seal"), the power of Blackburn's book lies in her language and in her ability to conjure images that are at once spooky and heart-rending.

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Even those who feel that Hugh Wheeler's slightly vulgar book coarsens "Smiles of a Summer Night, " the Ingmar Bergman film on which the show is based, will likely come away thinking that all you need do to purge the show of its occasional verbal excesses is to perform it with the subtlety that is the hallmark of this production.

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