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Actors: Harriet Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Ingrid Thulin, Erland Josephson
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Cries and Whispers |
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Anna is dying of cancer. Her sisters Karin and Maria show up at the family estate to be near her. Through flashbacks, the lives of gorgeous but vapid Maria (Ullmann) and tense, frigid wife Karin (Thulin) are shown to have been the stuff of lies, self-deception, guilt, and callousness. Agnes's death struggles fill them with horror, and when, after death, she beckons to them for comfort they can only retreat. It is only dull, devoted servant Anna (Sylwan) who can reach out to a fellow human being in desperate need. This is classic Bergman: painful, devastating, coldly sensual, at times horrific, but utterly memorable. It's an Edvard Munch brought to life. Sven Nykvist's beautiful cinematography earned an Oscar, and the film was one of very few foreign movies up to that time to receive a nomination for Best Picture.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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CRIES AND WHISPERS is a movie written and directed by Ingmar Bergman in 1972. Academy award for Sven Nykvist in the "Best Cinematography" category.
Sweden, late XIXth century. Three sisters are confined in the family house. In the company of Anna, the servant, Liv Ullmann and Ingrid Thulin watch over Harriett Andersson who's lying in bed all day, atrociously suffering and waiting for the death to come. Flashbacks show us different episodes of Ullmann and Thulin's lives full of guilt, forbidden love and hate. Even the imminent death of their sister cannot stop the bursts of hate between Thulin and Ullmann.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Cries and Whispers |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 19th century
Family, struggling with
Yes
Struggle with:
- Sister
Family, caring for sick?
Yes
Who is sick?
- Sister
because he/she is
- physically ill
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Scandinavian
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- physically sick
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 60%
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Scandinavian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a fight for survival
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Scandinavia
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
- in awe
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- Scandinavian
Subtitles?
- Yes
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