Victor Seastrom

I love films about film makers and stars and so I have seen a lot of them. However, I was majorly disappointed in this film about Victor Sjöström for many reasons. First, it told almost nothing about him as a person and his life. I really wanted some nice insights into who he was...and got almost none. Second, instead of an intensive discussion of all of his films and lots of interviews, the only interviewee was Ingmar Bergman and instead of talking about the films, they just showed LONG clips from a few of his films--very long ones at that. As a result of this and very grainy clips, it all just came off as cheap and incomplete. And, I might add, was among the least well-made or interesting of the retrospectives I've ever seen. Not terrible...but surely someone could have done a better job on his life than this. Disappointing.