Searching for Ingmar Bergman

The film has a 91% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 34 reviews.^[6] Sheila O'Malley of RogerEbert.com awarded the film two and a half stars out of four.^[2] Pat Brown of Slant Magazine also awarded the film two and a half stars out of four.^[3] Allison Gilmor of the Winnipeg Free Press awarded the film four stars out of five.^[7]

Owen Gleiberman of Variety gave the film a positive review, calling it "a documentary that bubbles over with anecdote and insight."^[1]

Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Reasonably engaging as far as it goes, Searching for Ingmar Bergman evinces great appreciation for the writer-director’s legacy and offers the testimonies of numerous eminent enthusiasts, but it leaves a good deal to be desired..."^[4]

Ben Sachs of the Chicago Reader also gave the film a positive review and wrote, "The film doesn’t provide any new information for those already familiar with Bergman’s life and work, though some of the interviewees are insightful."^[8]

Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times also gave the film a positive review, calling it "a chatty and enjoyable but decidedly nondefinitive look at one of the cinema’s most acclaimed, influential auteurs..."^[9]

Robert Abele of TheWrap also gave the film a positive review and wrote, "But with so many documentaries on Bergman already in existence, that von Trotta has made her own uniquely inviting tour of his triumphs, anguishes, and longstanding themes — in essence a roomy portrait of the artist as an engaged, fallible searcher — is its own gift of sorts, from one acolyte of cinema to another."^[10]

• Searching for Ingmar Bergman at IMDb
• Searching for Ingmar Bergman at Rotten Tomatoes