If you get depressed along with the characters in films like this, you might be better off giving this one a miss.īut for those with a taste for this type of claustrophobic drama, this is one of the most powerful films you will ever see. The sister with the horrible degenerative disease, the drowned toddler, the selfishness of the Ingrid Bergman character. Both of the film’s stars, Liv Ullmann and Ingrid Bergman, had daughters as well as celebrated careers. We are all some mother’s daughter, whether we were cherished or abandoned, spoiled or abused. Of course, it has the Ingmar Bergman darkness to it. A utumn Sonata (1978) cuts deep into a woman, even if she recoils from it. Or else you never bothered to read it, Eva replies. (Eva wrote to her about it at the time, but Charlotte says that she never received the letter. Ingrid plays a woman whose successful career as a concert pianist takes her away from family. Much to her surprise alarm might be a more accurate word she discovers that her other daughter, Helena (Lena Nyman), has been living with Eva and Viktor for the past two years. The film is nothing short of a heart stopping chamber drama, luring the audience in to seize them by the throat and suffocate them in this mother and daughter warfare. From iconic director Ingmar Bergman, Autumn Sonata is a blistering examination of the mother-daughter dynamic starring Ingrid Bergman (no relation to Ingmar) and Liv Ullmann. Fortunately Scandinavian vocal nuance is similar enough to English to enable us non-Swedish speakers to appreciate the acting. Just as any Bergman dialogue, Autumn Sonata is layered in symbolic metaphor, straightforward angst, despair, and unflinching emotional brutality. When Charlotte goes to stay with Eva, Eva’s husband Viktor (Halvar Bjork), and her other daughter Helena (Lena Nyman) for a short while, she and Eva attempt to mend old wounds. Autumn Sonata (1978, Ingmar Bergman) by Douglas. The acting is simply amazing, even through the subtitles you can tell. Self-professed Bergman-phile Douglas Buck reviews the great man’s last theatrical feature, Autumn Sonata. Liv Ullman also has visual nuances to enhance her character - the glasses, platted hair and jumpers enabling this beautiful woman to look frumpy. Ingrid Bergman is terrific, despite a deliberately naff hairdo which makes her look like Queen Elizabeth II of the UK rather than the faded beauty she is. Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullman are simply amazing together as a mother and daughter combination from hell. This is one of the very best Ingmar Bergman films I have seen, and therefore one of the very best films.
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