Six or Seven Stars

I would give five stars for a film like “La Femme d’à Côté”: it’s perfectly made, has a wonderful cinematography, colours, these things. Films like “Milou en Mai”, “If…”, “Fitzcarraldo” and “Kes”, too. There are some films, however, that I’d thought to see through them something more profound, that touched something, like Ingmar Bergman says in this excerpt:

“Today, I feel that in Persona – and later in Cries and Whispers – I had gone as far as I could go. And that in these two instance, when working in total freedom, I touched...