“It was Bergner's performance in Escape Me Never that had critics hailing her as another Eleanora Duse.... Elisabeth Bergner...understood the power of the camera. She knew exactly how to throw the proper reflections into its eye, for there has never been such a totally visual actress on the screen since her departure. She was a gamine, unearthly, a bit amoral, but with a fabulous range of expressions and mercurial shifts in temperament....” (Albert Johnson, San Francisco International Film Festival, 1968) In Escape Me Never, Bergner is put to the test in a role that develops from an impish, amoral waif to a broken mother and abused wife of an errant genius. “As a Bergner catalogue, it is an illuminating and breathless experience.... As the unmoral gypsy of the early Venetian scenes, she is a miracle of gossamer gracefulness and bewitching humor. By the time she is roaming the London slums, stunned by the death of her baby, she is treading the path of sainted motherhood which the scenarists have worn thin, yet making something of it that is new and touching.” (New York Times)