Remains my favourite Ingrid Bergman film and she deserved her win ; she even looked beautiful in the beginning, while still appearing very ill and troubled.
Although a remarkably fine actress, I've always regarded Ingrid as possessing quite a severe beauty, which reminded me of my ultra strict Dutch matron at my boarding school during the early 1960s.
She had left Hollywood at the end of the 40s and had an affair with director Rossellini and a baby out of wedlock - it was a huge scandal and efficelty ended her Hollywood career and she lived in Europe; she slowly returned with this movie; you can watch a video about this by bkr: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m1ZZXW9fkLQ.htmlsi=VKs75f8OmB1lZ4z7
She gave up Hollywood. For a Italian narcissist that treated her like a dirty little w****. She finally got him to marry her after she had three or four kids of his.
