Sawdust and Tinsel

Pros: cast, photography, editing
Cons: some initial disorientation for viewers

Gycklarnas afton (Sawdust and Tinsel, also released as The Naked Night, 1953) is the film directed by Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that sounds and looks most like a backstage Fellini movie with a Nino Rota-like score (composed by Karl-Birger Blomdahl).. If ...

Pros: characters are well defined
Cons: pessimistic, depressing, lacks action

"Gycklarnas afton" is from the early directing career of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. In the U.S., the film was shown in theaters under the title "The Naked Night", and on television with the title "Sawdust and Tinsel"....

Pros: Cinematography, Well Defined Characters
Cons: Depressing

If disorder in this film includes unhappiness, infidelity, apathy, pathos and sadism, then the scapegoat is well utilized in "Sawdust and Tinsel". Each relationship that is explored in the film leads to conflict, crisis and resolution. The resultant...