Review of Anastasia

Anastasia (1956)
9/10
I finally got to see the much-deserved second Oscar win for Ingrid Bergman in Anastasia
28 August 2021
For a long time, I mainly knew of this movie as the one in which Ingrid Bergman won her second Oscar after suffering for several years under a scandal of having an adulterous relationship with an Italian filmmaker with whom she bares a child and later marries. Anyway, here she's an amnesia-addled victim who's recruited by Yul Brynner to pass off as the sole survivor of a family who were killed long ago. Helen Hayes plays the one Ms. Bergman is supposed to impress the most. All three performances are quite good. The ending is open-ended which makes this a much different kind of conclusion from the kind usually associated with Hollywood. Mom and I enjoyed it though so that's a recommendation for Anastasia.
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