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Yes, I've agreed with you, it's quite beautiful. But it's not just a poem but

a film which, being a Bergman vehicle, has thought behind it.
My point is that, like Freud, Bergman has centered upon the neurosis of a middle-class woman. Great art should have great subjects: Imagine Hamlet without Claudius's crime. He'd be just another disaffected teenager, wouldn't he?
Poor little filthy rich actress and her nurse/governess: boohoo. Where's the dynamic struggle? Mental illness? Not really, is it? She seems to be playing a game, as the whispering scene suggests.
Yes, it's a clever, entertaining, and beautiful film but it's not great. And, yes, I understand the playing off of the persona of an individual, of an actress, and of another person that is NOT an actresss... what is real and what is artifice.
In the end, superficial people, both of them, and not very "important."

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