Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann in Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, 1972)
Cast: Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, Anders Ek, Inga Gill, Erland Josephson, Henning Moritzen, Georg Årlin. Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman. Cinematography: Sven Nykvist. Production design: Marik Vos-Lundh. Film editing: Siv Lundgren.
Cries and Whispers is both of a time and timeless. It is very much a product of the last great moviegoing age, when people would see a challenging film and go back to their homes or coffee shops or dorm rooms and discuss its effects on them. Today, if a movie provokes discussion it's usually on social media, where seriousness gets short shrift. The combination of visual beauty and emotional rawness in Bergman's film is something rarely encountered today. We are, I think, wary of emotion, too eager to lapse into ironic distancing from the depiction of disease, suffering, death, cruelty, passion, spite, and grief that permeates Cries and Whispers. And that, in turn, is what makes it timeless: The emotions on view in the film are universal, and Bergman's treatment of them without melodrama or sentiment is unequaled. The few prominent filmmakers who attempt anything similar today, such as Paul Thomas Anderson or Terrence Malick, often find their films greeted with a sharp division of opinion, between critics who find them pretentiously self-indulgent and those who find them audaciously original. But we also seldom see performances as daring as Harriet Andersson's death scene, Kari Sylwan's attempts to comfort her, Ingrid Thulin's self-mutilation, and Liv Ullmann's confrontations with the others. And we seldom see them in a narrative that teeters between realism and nightmare as effectively as Bergman's screenplay, in a setting so evocative as production designer Marik Vos-Lundh's, or via such sensitive camerawork as Sven Nykvist's. Cries and Whispers has often been compared to Chekhov, and for once it's a film that merits the comparison.
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Cries and Whispers (1972). When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.
I’m actually pretty partial to Ingmar Bergman. Some of his films I really, really adore, so I was looking forward to this movie! And it’s not bad by any stretch of the imagination! It’s gorgeously shot, and the other visual elements like costume and lighting and sets come together masterfully. That said, it’s also pretty heavy handed, and tonally, I’d say it’s morose in a way that weighs the film down overall. It’s far from his best work, but still. A sumptious film. 6.5/10.
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Cries and Whispers (1972)
“Cries and Whispers is among the few Bergman films that can, with certitude, be called visually sumptuous.”
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