An "okay" documentary. I felt they could've done a lot better. The fawning and idol-worship of some of the interviewees, I found repellant, and most of it seemed to occur in in the first half of the film or so. Most of the interview-excerpts with the various directors (some well-known in America, some not) were pretty good... It was good to see Woody Allen's, Martin Scorsese's, and Ridley Scott's thoughts on Bergman, as well as other directors' thoughts. I wish they would've spent more time commenting on each movie Bergman made, chronologically, but they only touched on the "biggest" (but not necessarily the best) ones, not mentioning some of the better but less popular of his films... There was also little about Bergman's personal life itself, which I'm sure wasn't a huge loss (because the guy probably did lead a pretty unexciting, solitary life, for the most part), but it would have been informative to see. (There have been many great interviews with Bergman himself over the years, Bergman speaking English quite well and charmingly, which the documentarians could've inserted into this film... But maybe legal issues prevented that.)
The biggest flaw of this film, in my opinion, was the Bergman-worship. Bergman was a *vehicle* for great ideas and talented film-making; he wasn't a divine figure or avatar come to enlighten the masses. Some of the jokes and irreverent comments made at Bergman's expense came across as refreshing instead of annoying like they otherwise would've struck me. (I'm a big fan of balance... I don't like too much criticism, nor too much fawning.)