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The Rite [DVD] [1969]

DVD ~ Gunnar Bjornstrand
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  • Actors: Gunnar Bjornstrand, Anders Ek, Erik Hell, Ingrid Thulin
  • Directors: Ingmar Bergman
  • Format: Black & White, PAL
  • Language Swedish
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Palisades Tartan
  • DVD Release Date: 6 Dec 2004
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0006A97PI
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 46,052 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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A theatre company find that their play has come to the attention of the authorities for being obscene and they are questioned by the local magistrate. Soon everyone is revealing secrets...

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4.0 out of 5 stars Bizarre, 29 Jun 2005
By Colin C "Colin C" (Glasgow) - See all my reviews
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This film, made for television in 1969, makes an interesting companion piece to 'The Face', which was released on DVD by Tartan as 'The Magician'. Both works concern the nature of art and the torment of the artist, always open to public humiliation. Both are very unusual and very memorable, but this one, a decade or so after 'The Face', is more confrontational and explicit.

The appearance of this film on DVD is yet more welcome proof that Tartan video are making a comprehensive and committed job of releasing Bergman's work on DVD in the UK. It's a relatively minor work, taking place mostly in a basic courtroom/office set, but it still has an impressive impact on the viewer, with a tense, claustrophobic atmosphere throughout. Perhaps it's not in the top rank of his work, but if you are interested in Bergman's career, it's certainly a must see.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A COLLECTION OF TAUT MINDED GAMES, 18 Oct 2007
By stuart "s.vernon" (MIDDLESBROUGH, ENGLAND) - See all my reviews
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I'm one of those: Ingmar Bergman is a true artist, a great filmmaker who's connection with the brightness and deepest darkness of human nature, of faults with religion, with close relationships, horrors of the mind, dreams, was so strong that it's hard to believe that he made so much and didn't succumb sooner to his most dogged troubles- death. In the case of the Rite, it's basically an experiment. He has ten scenes, four actors (not counting himself in an uproarious cameo appearance/in-joke on the Seventh Seal as a priest), and a lot of sado-masochistic psychology to work with. There aren't quite as many monologues as in Persona, and not the same depth of a relationship ala Scenes From a Marriage. But for the most part, the Rite works well as another exploration of Bergman's into the frayed mindset of actors, the discombobulated circumstances they get themselves into personally that mucks them up in the real world. Only the theater is their strange refuge, might be the message here, if there is one.

One thing's for certain, among the many performances that Bergman stock-company members Bjornstrand and Thullin have given in past films (Winter Light maybe their best pairing), the Rite provides them some of their best work. It might be almost too easy considering the material- a married couple that is completely miserable, full of the kind of bile that is found in the worst boils- and brought to a more succinct point by the actor Anders Ek (who has also been in a couple other Bergman flicks, notably Seventh Seal as the Monk), who might be the most exhaustedly p-o'd actor one's ever seen. They're all on trial for some Kafkaesque reason by a judge (Erik Hell) who is making their nerves totally on edge with his insistence on all the 'facts' coming in. The scenes particularly with him and Thulin are explosive, and even shocking to a point, where as before there's been subtlety and insinuation.

As it stands, approximately 9/10ths of The Rite is close to vintage Bergman as one could hope for, coming out of a period in the 60s where he plunged into a deconstructionist approach that found him working at full-steam (Persona, Shame, and Hour of the Wolf are some of the most daring 'art-house' films ever conceived and executed), and considering this as just an exercise is nothing to sneeze at...That being said, there is that final scene in the office I can't get out of my head, and unlike other times with Bergman I'm not sure it's such a good thing. It's a turning-the-tables scene where the actors come in costumes and masks ala Eyes Wide Shut and freak the f*** out of the judge, and Hell (no pun intended) goes into a rant about how wrong he was and how he sees that he's just a lawyer who didn't want to do this and that and so on. And it just doesn't feel the same as the rest of the material in the film, an 'off' quality, despite (or in spite) of the fact that on its own it's a truly outrageous thing to see: the costumes are sado-masochism incarnate, with a certain appendage that is ridiculous, and a bowl of wine that is obvious symbolically.

Maybe someday if I re-watch the Rite I'll come to admire or find something else about the scene that works better, but for now it's the only thing that is really a bugger about what is otherwise an exemplary work of cinematic theater. If you can find it somewhere in your local video store (available on DVD), and are already head-deep in the master of Scandinavian motion pictures, it's worth it.
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