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- Release Date: 1973
- Runtime: 91 min
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Starring: Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann ... see all
- Director: Ingmar Bergman
- Plot: In turn-of-the-century Sweden, cancer-stricken, dying Agnes is visited in her isolated rural mansion by her sisters Karin and Maria. As Agnes' condition deteriorates and pain management becomes increasingly more difficult,... Read more
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| Aug 18, 2002Chicago Sun-Times
Bergman never made another film this painful.....In an extraordinary achievement for a foreign film, it won Academy nominations for best picture, director, screenplay and cinematography.....The ending of the film is overwhelming in its emotional strategy.....In one of the film's most devastating scenes, Karin tells Maria how much she had always hated her.....to capture moments of extreme emotion.... ... Full Review
| Aug 18, 2002Chicago Sun-Times
Bergman never made another film this painful.....In an extraordinary achievement for a foreign film, it won Academy nominations for best picture, director, screenplay and cinematography.....The ending of the film is overwhelming in its emotional strategy.....In one of the film's most devastating scenes, Karin tells Maria how much she had always hated her.....to capture moments of extreme emotion.... ... Full Review
Q Network Film Desk
This, of course, requires particularly good acting, as every minor movement is magnified to enormous proportions.
It is, appropriately, one of the few scenes to take place outside, freed from the blood-red confines of the manor.
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News
Film festival of world classics
galatta.com –
2008-09-17
Trissur-based Kerala Lalitha Kala Academy, established in 1962 to promote Fine Arts in Kerala, will organize a four-day film festival of world classics from September 18 to 21 at R.L.V. ... Full Article
10 Years in the Dark
suntimes.com –
1977-04-10
Our film critic, Roger Ebert, steps out into the light, blinks his eyes and shares some of the good memories. Time passes in the wink of an eye. ... Full Article
You can interpret Cries and Whispers through a whole religious metaphysic, and no doubt Bergman himself would; but latterly this has been something of a red herring for a director whose talent lies more in straight psychodrama. ... Full Article
It would be tritely smart to say Rituparno Ghosh's Shob Charitra Kalponik is one of the most realistic films he has ever made. Sure, Shob Charitra is realistic. ... Full Article