CRIES AND WHISPERS Viskningar och rop
When
a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by
her two sisters, longrepressed feelings between the siblings rise to
the surface.
This existential wail of a drama concerns
two sisters, Karin (Ingrid Thulin) and Maria (Liv Ullmann), keeping
vigil for a third, Agnes (Harriet Andersson), who is dying of cancer and
can find solace only in the arms of a beatific servant (Kari Sylwan).
An intensely felt film that is one of Bergman’s most striking formal
experiments, Cries and Whispers (which won an Oscar for the
extraordinary color photography by Sven Nykvist) is a powerful depiction
of human behavior in the face of death, positioned on the borders
between reality and nightmare, tranquility and terror. (Sweden, 1972, 91 min., R, Swedish with English subtitles| Dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) stands as one
of the giants of world cinema and perhaps the father of the flowering
of art house movement in America during the 1960s and ’70s. This
selection of some of his greatest works feature new digital restorations
courtesy of Janus Films and the Swedish Film Institute.
Click on the Links Below to Purchase Tickets for More Bergman Films:
THE SEVENTH SEAL
WILD STRAWBERRIES
PERSONA
THE MAGIC FLUTE
SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT