To Joy

Lynch/Fellini

A great early film from Bergman, which serves as a great precursor to his later works. It is as tragic as it is beautiful, simply a wonderful movie!

viivahate

It isn't one of my favourites but you can see the impact of betrayals in Bergman's life (if you read "the magic lantern" you will know what I'm talking about). At first I thought that this could be an "happy bergman", silly me...

CarlosEsquives

Sin duda, la más "alegre" historia realizada por el sueco. Bergman sigue con los relatos de amantes que luchan por reprimir sus frustraciones, los cuales salpican hacia sus también frustrados amantes, armándose por fin el drama o incluso hasta la tragedia. En "Hacia la felicidad" sucede esto, más por culpa de la fatalidad. Dentro de las peleas, crisis y separaciones, hay un enorme espacio para la felicidad misma.

Ben Dooley

An emotional tale of a young violinist, whose egotistical desire to become a great artist makes him cruel, but who learns from his wife and children that life is more important. It's an expertly told Ophuls/Lean-like melodrama of the art world. And highly cinematic - in the use of roaming cameras throughout; in the use of abstract visuals of white/black; and in scenes shot in natural settings. Terrific faces too.

Minu

I find a sentimental emphasis uncharacteristic to any other film of Bergman, but maybe he awaited his pleiad of actors with whom he worked his entire career.

Ozu_Teapot

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Samuel T.

"We've both been struck by clarity. With clarity comes disgust. It's a natural consequence."

A47

"I'll tell you the secret of real art. It's created when you're unhappy."