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Face to Face (Swedish: Ansikte mot ansikte) is a 1976 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It tells the story of a psychiatrist who is suffering from a mental illness. It stars Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson. The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition.
Dr. Jenny Isaksson (Liv Ullmann) is a psychiatrist married to another psychiatrist; both are successful in their jobs but slowly, agonizingly, Jenny succumbs to a breakdown. She is haunted by images and emotions from her past and eventually cannot function, either as a wife, a doctor or as an individual.
It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress (Ullmann) and Best Director (Bergman).
Ullmann was nominated by BAFTA in the Best Actress category.
She was also named Best Actress by the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, the National Board of Review and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, with the film winning Best Foreign Language Film at the latter.
It also was named by the Golden Globes as their Best Foreign Language Film of the year, with Ullmann also being nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama.
Call the police or let the neighbors hear you scream
Your center of attention.
Settle out of court, don't want to make a scene.
Automatic reputation.
Guided by voices and led by thieves
Don't move to California
And sell me out, cause I won't, sell me out
[Chorus]
Say what you want to gace to face or nothing matters at all.
That's what you get.
Don't talk around it.
Stop reading my mind and make the telephone ring
Waiting for the white out.
Put your soul on ice cause you can't come clean
It takes one to fake one,
Forget about it.
[Chorus]
At seventeen I had a break down, a psychic reading and a new sound.
I want to talk about the clear blue mourning
You read it, get it? Oh now forget about it.