| Brief Description: | With the understanding only intimacy can bring, Liv Ullmann brings to the screen Ingmar Bergman's unsparingly honest script about an infidelity from his past. Although fictional in some respects, there is no effort to mask the autobiographical nature of the story (a central character's name is Bergman), nor any attempt to soften what is clearly a harsh self-critique. Erland Josephson (Scenes from a Marriage) plays Bergman, who calls upon his muse--the ghost of a former lover--to share her reasons for having the affair that now haunts him so. "It looks just as Bergman might have filmed it: formal, precise and demanding of its cast an astonishing surrender to a gallery of unflinching close-ups" (Philip Strick, Sight & Sound). With Lena Endre (Best Intentions), Krister Henriksson and Thomas Hanzon (Private Confessions). In Swedish with English subtitles. |
