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Cries And Whispers
1972
Cries and Whispers stars Liv Ullman and Ingrid Thulin as the sisters of dying cancer patient Harriet Andersson. Both sisters have already had brushes with death: Ullman has had an affair which prompted her husband's suicide, while Thulin has long wanted to do away with herself, at one point mutilating her own vagina out of self-.. Read more
| Starring | Ingrid Thulin, Kari Sylwan, Harriet Andersson, Liv Ullmann |
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| Director | Ingmar Bergman |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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Focusing on the failure of love and the agony of loss, this is one of Ingmar Bergman's finest achievements. Combining memories, fantasies and moments of intense family drama, this harrowing study of pain, passion, sisterhood and death brought Bergman a hat-trick of Oscar nominations, although it was Sven Nykvist who won the award for his luscious cinematography. However, it's the stunning art direction of Marik Vos that provides this disturbing chamber drama with its unforgettable manor house setting and its mesmerising red colour scheme. Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann dominate proceedings as the well-heeled sisters, but Kari Sylwan is every bit as impressive as the peasant maid.
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You can interpret Cries and Whispers through a whole religious metaphysic, and no doubt Bergman himself would; but... read more on Time Out
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20 out of 20 people found this review helpful
Absorbing drama
Ingmar Bergman's 'Cries and Whispers' is a compelling portrait of a family dealing with a relative's impending death, while also facing their ... more
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9 out of 13 people found this review helpful
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Seeing Red
This may anger you. Like lots of ‘art’ films (‘A Wednesday Play’, my mum would say), you get the feeling that everybody – director, ... more
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- PeterSays from Romsey
- Posted 26 Mar 2007 16:37
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Atmospheric
This was a deep and intelligent film about the idea that families can breed contempt. The three sisters have put up walls around themselves to protect them. And... more
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20 out of 20 people found this review helpful
Absorbing drama
Ingmar Bergman's 'Cries and Whispers' is a compelling portrait of a family dealing with a relative's impending death, while also facing their ... more
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9 out of 13 people found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
Seeing Red
This may anger you. Like lots of ‘art’ films (‘A Wednesday Play’, my mum would say), you get the feeling that everybody – director, ... more
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- PeterSays from Romsey
- Posted 26 Mar 2007 16:37
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
Seeing Red
This may anger you. Like lots of ‘art’ films (‘A Wednesday Play’, my mum would say), you get the feeling that everybody – director, ... more
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- PeterSays from Romsey
- Posted 20 Mar 2007 09:51
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Spellbinding...
Spellbinding stuff from start to finish, a film which began as a recurring, stubbornly insistent image in the director's imagination, and found its way over... more
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4 out of 6 people found this review helpful
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Symphony in red
I'd say the stars of this picture were Sven Nyquist, the cameraman, and Marik Vos, the art director. The film is memorable for its visual images - each and ... more
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- IanStewart from Melton Mowbray
- Posted 28 Jul 2007 22:55
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
The sisters' dance around one another, with lots of old wounds coming between them. There is an after death scene between the dead girl and the maid which ... more
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
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Strange one being a Bergman fan and all that.
Wonderfully,weird Bergman.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Critics' reviews (2)
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Focusing on the failure of love and the agony of loss, this is one of Ingmar Bergman's finest achievements. Combining memories, fantasies and moments of intense family drama, this harrowing study of pain, passion, sisterhood and death brought Bergman a hat-trick of Oscar nominations, although it was Sven Nykvist who won the award for his luscious cinematography. However, it's the stunning art direction of Marik Vos that provides this disturbing chamber drama with its unforgettable manor house setting and its mesmerising red colour scheme. Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann dominate proceedings as the well-heeled sisters, but Kari Sylwan is every bit as impressive as the peasant maid.
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You can interpret Cries and Whispers through a whole religious metaphysic, and no doubt Bergman himself would; but... read more on Time Out
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Cries and Whispers stars Liv Ullman and Ingrid Thulin as the sisters of dying cancer patient Harriet Andersson. Both sisters have already had brushes with death: Ullman has had an affair which ... -
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