Dr. Jenny Isaakson (Liv Ullman) is a Swedish psychiatrist who specializes in treating the mentally ill. But Jenny finds her own sanity in question, as she starts to fall into a midlife depression. After a failed suicide attempt, Jenny has hallucinatory dreams where she is haunted by her psyche (her deceased parents, her loving grandparents, her patients, etc.) It's left in question whether or not she fully recovers from this. Ullman gives a powerful performance in a serious drama about mental illness. Bergman directs well, with long takes and occasional split-screen imagery. But this isn't a feel-good movie that you want to see more than once.
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