Saraband (2003)
Country: SV/DK/NOR/IT/FIN/GER/�ST
Technical: col 107m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Börje Ahlstedt, Julia Dufvenius
Synopsis:
The principal characters of Scenes from a Marriage meet up again thirty years later at Marianne's prompting, and she becomes caught up in the difficult relations between her ex-husband and his son who is occupying a nearby villa with his daughter, a cellist. The animosity between them is exacerbated by their competing feelings for both the girl and her late mother.
Review:
A curious choice for the master's latest farewell to the screen: it has the expected venom, audacities and religious/musical imagery but adds little to his oeuvre beyond a footnote to a celebrated former success. There is perhaps a softening of his attitude to age, doubtless because he is ageing himself, but no note of reconciliation between this parent and child. Instead it is Marianne who experiences a rapprochement with her catatonic daughter in the final frames of the film.
Country: SV/DK/NOR/IT/FIN/GER/�ST
Technical: col 107m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Börje Ahlstedt, Julia Dufvenius
Synopsis:
The principal characters of Scenes from a Marriage meet up again thirty years later at Marianne's prompting, and she becomes caught up in the difficult relations between her ex-husband and his son who is occupying a nearby villa with his daughter, a cellist. The animosity between them is exacerbated by their competing feelings for both the girl and her late mother.
Review:
A curious choice for the master's latest farewell to the screen: it has the expected venom, audacities and religious/musical imagery but adds little to his oeuvre beyond a footnote to a celebrated former success. There is perhaps a softening of his attitude to age, doubtless because he is ageing himself, but no note of reconciliation between this parent and child. Instead it is Marianne who experiences a rapprochement with her catatonic daughter in the final frames of the film.
Country: SV/DK/NOR/IT/FIN/GER/�ST
Technical: col 107m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Börje Ahlstedt, Julia Dufvenius
Synopsis:
The principal characters of Scenes from a Marriage meet up again thirty years later at Marianne's prompting, and she becomes caught up in the difficult relations between her ex-husband and his son who is occupying a nearby villa with his daughter, a cellist. The animosity between them is exacerbated by their competing feelings for both the girl and her late mother.
Review:
A curious choice for the master's latest farewell to the screen: it has the expected venom, audacities and religious/musical imagery but adds little to his oeuvre beyond a footnote to a celebrated former success. There is perhaps a softening of his attitude to age, doubtless because he is ageing himself, but no note of reconciliation between this parent and child. Instead it is Marianne who experiences a rapprochement with her catatonic daughter in the final frames of the film.