Liv in Brooklyn
Nov 25, 2009Liv Ullmann is the belle of the ball this holiday season at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Not only is the Swedish acting powerhouse’s staging of A Streetcar Named Desire (which was first . . .
Synopsis
Legendary director Ingmar Bergman creates a testament to the strength of the soul—and a film of absolute power. Karin and Maria come to the aid of their dying sister, Agnes, but jealousy, manipulation, and selfishness come before empathy. Agnes, tortured by cancer, transcends the pettiness of her sisters’ concerns to remember moments of being—moments that Bergman, with the help of Academy Award–winning cinematographer Sven Nykvist, translates into pictures of staggering beauty and unfathomable horror.
Cast
| Agnes | Harriet Andersson |
| Anna | Kari Sylwan |
| Karin | Ingrid Thulin |
| Maria | Liv Ullmann |
| Pastor Isak | Anders Ek |
| Aunt Olga | Inga Gill |
| David | Erland Josephson |
| Joakim | Henning Moritzen |
| Frederik | Georg Årlin |
Credits
| Director | Ingmar Bergman |
| Screenplay | Ingmar Bergman |
| Producer | Lars-Owe Carlberg |
| Cinematography | Sven Nykvist |
| Editing | Siv Lundgren |
| Music | Frédéric Chopin and Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Performed by | Käbi Laretei and Pierre Fournier |
Disc Features
- Lush new digital transfer, enhanced for 16×9 televisions
- Ingmar Bergman: Reflections on Life, Death, and Love with Erland Josephson (2000), a candid and revealing 52-minute interview with Bergman and long-time collaborator Erland Josephson, originally broadcast on Swedish television
- Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
- Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition
From the Current
Liv Remembers Ingmar
Oct 9, 2009More than two years after Ingmar Bergman’s death, his muse Liv Ullmann is still bursting with stories about the Swedish director. In a poignant and insightful profile by Diane Solway in this month’s issue of
Salute to Liv Ullmann
by Dec 15, 2008Flash back to September 1968. The Swedish Film Week in Sorrento, Italy, with its alfresco suppers and its excursions to Capri and Pompeii. Ingmar Bergman was expected, and he and Liv Ullmann were assigned a luxurious villa for the duration. But Ingmar pleaded an ear infection, and Liv was left . . .
Cries and Whispers
by Jun 18, 2001In his book Images, Ingmar Bergman has written: “All my films can be thought of in terms of black and white, except for Cries and Whispers. In the screenplay, it says that red represents for me the interior of the soul. When I was a child, I imagined the soul to be . . .
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