2003 | Sweden | Fiction

Saraband

  • Swedish English 111 mins
  • Director | Ingmar Bergman
  • Writer | Ingmar Bergman
  • Producer | Pia Ehrnvall

STATUS: Released

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With his final film, Ingmar Bergman returned to two of his most richly drawn characters: Johan (Erland Josephson) and Marianne (Liv Ullman), the couple from Scenes from a Marriage. Dropping in on Johan’s secluded country house after decades of separation, Marianne reconnects with the man she once loved. Nearby, the widowed musician Henrik (Börje Ahlstedt), Johan’s son from an earlier marriage, clutches desperately to his only child, the teenage Karin (Julia Dufvenius). A chamber piece performed by four wounded characters and suffused with disappointment and forgiveness, Saraband is a generous farewell to cinema from one of its greatest artists.

Memory Regret Family Power Loneliness
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The Criterion Collection
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