
In spring 2011, director Stig Björkman meets Ingrid Bergman's daughter Isabella Rossellini and she suggests him to "make a film about Mama". Through Isabella, Stig is able to tell Ingrid's story through her own words and images. Seven time Academy Award-nominee and three time Academy Award-winner Ingrid Bergman was one of the most talented actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age with great performances in films such as CASABLANCA (1942), GASLIGHT (1944) and and AUTUMN SONATA (19... (Full plot summary below)
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In spring 2011, director Stig Björkman meets Ingrid Bergman's daughter Isabella Rossellini and she suggests him to "make a film about Mama". Through Isabella, Stig is able to tell Ingrid's story through her own words and images. Seven time Academy Award-nominee and three time Academy Award-winner Ingrid Bergman was one of the most talented actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age with great performances in films such as CASABLANCA (1942), GASLIGHT (1944) and and AUTUMN SONATA (1978). Through never-before-seen private footage, notes, letters, diaries and interviews with her children, this documentary presents a personal portrait and captivating look behind the scenes of the remarkable life of a young Swedish girl who became one of the most celebrated actresses of American and World cinema.
Leave your thoughts about Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words.
| ObserverRex ReedA creature of impulse to the end, she was a woman who saved everything—from lace valentines and old passports to Oscars and tear-stained divorce papers. How lucky we are she can share them with us now. She marched to her own drummer, and the beat goes on. |
| The Arts DeskJasper ReesThe picture that emerges is of an emotional nomad with a fragile gift for joy, embodied in a smile that could bring down the walls of Jericho. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseBergman's effortlessly poetic diary and letters provide more evidence, though patently unnecessary, of her artistic temperament, her lyrical view of experience. [Criterion Blu-ray] |
| SF WeeklySherilyn ConnellyIt's in the little moments that Bergman shines, a woman unafraid to follow her own path in both word and deed. |
| City Pages, Minneapolis/St. PaulMichael NordineBjörkman's best quality as a documentarian is ultimately a double-edged sword: He's too content to let his subject do all the talking. |
| The Film StageMichael SnydelIt's a morass of individually satisfying ideas that fail to create a larger picture. |
| Q Network Film DeskJames KendrickThe best thing I can say about it is that I will never see Bergman-someone who I had thought was quite familiar at this point-the same way again. |
| The PlaylistNick SchagerThe use of the actress’ own archival material in 'In Her Own Words' results in a tribute to both her titanic career, and to her belief in the movies’ capacity to safeguard the past, and to maintain it long after its makers are gone. |
| National PostChris KnightIt's difficult to encompass such a complicated life in less than two hours, but Björkman encapsulates it nicely. |
| Sunday Independent (Ireland)Hilary A WhiteSuch sources and archive footage (much taken by Bergman on her trusty 16mm) lend this portrait valuable authenticity. |