Crisis opens with a narrator laying some background for the viewer to learn that Nelly - a pretty, small-town girl with dreams of a more exciting life - is about to meet her birth mother for the first time in 18 years. Until that time, for unexplained reasons, Nelly has lived with Ms. Johnson, who has served as her "real" mother, the woman who raised her and has taken care of her. After fending off yet another advance from the much older tenant, a lumbering character named Ulfe, Nelly leaves for the big city with her birth mother and experiences life there while working in a salon.
This movie is boring, the characters are largely one-dimensional (in addition to frequently unlikable), the dialogue often veers towards pretentious monologues, and it's all set against a bombastic score. I think this movie scores as highly as it does on IMDB because it's directed by Ingmar Bergman, possibly leading reviewers to think that it's not a bad movie, they just must have "missed" something. It's not a good movie, though you occasionally see flashes of the insightfulness and creativity that made Bergman famous. Unfortunately, those interesting moments flicker and quickly disappear.
The upshot of Crisis is that it proves you can make a terrible first movie and still become one of the all-time great directors.
This movie is boring, the characters are largely one-dimensional (in addition to frequently unlikable), the dialogue often veers towards pretentious monologues, and it's all set against a bombastic score. I think this movie scores as highly as it does on IMDB because it's directed by Ingmar Bergman, possibly leading reviewers to think that it's not a bad movie, they just must have "missed" something. It's not a good movie, though you occasionally see flashes of the insightfulness and creativity that made Bergman famous. Unfortunately, those interesting moments flicker and quickly disappear.
The upshot of Crisis is that it proves you can make a terrible first movie and still become one of the all-time great directors.