It's a beautiful, haunting and compelling work, but a bit simplistic -- not as dense as Bergman's finer films. Also the ending is weak and doesn't seem to fit at all in the film, or even anywhere in the whole of Bergman's oeuvre.
This review of The Virgin Spring (1960) was written by Martin T on 19 Oct 2009.
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