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Cries and Whispers
Directed by
Ingmar Bergman
R
1972
1h 35m
Drama
7.9
91%
90%
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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.
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Cast of Cries and Whispers
Liv Ullmann
Maria
Ingrid Thulin
Karin
Kari Sylwan
Anna
Harriet Andersson
Agnes
Erland Josephson
David
Georg Årlin
Fredrik
Anders Ek
Isak
Henning Moritzen
Joakim
Ingmar Bergman
Narrator (voice) / Director / Writer / Producer
Ingrid Sandell
Girl at a Family Gathering (uncredited)
Ingrid Bergman
Spectator
Linn Ullmann
Maria's Daughter
Inga Gill
Storyteller
Greta Johansson
Undertaker (uncredited)
Marianne Aubert
Rossana Mariano
Young Agnes (uncredited)
Malin Gjörup
Anna's Daughter (uncredited)
Lena Bergman
Young Maria (uncredited)
Ann-Christin Lobråten
Spectator (uncredited)
Börje Lundh
Spectator (uncredited)
Lars-Owe Carlberg
Spectator (uncredited) / Producer
Monika Priede
Young Karin (uncredited)
Cries and Whispers Ratings & Reviews
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
There's a dullness at the heart of the movie, and the allegorical scheme leads to scenes that recall the conventions of silent films and the clichés of second-rate movie acting.
Newsweek
Paul D. Zimmerman
That this magnificent movie had difficulty finding an American distributor reflects the sad decline over the past decade reflects the sad decline over the past decade of this country's interest in serious work by the best foreign filmmakers.
Alternate Ending
Tim Brayton
Maybe the "easiest" of Bergman's major films, blunt in its symbolism, literal in its dialogue, unmistakable in its style.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
Bizarre and magnificently unnerving in its configuration of human emotion, there's a palpable discomfort to Cries and Whispers, with Sven Nyqvist's impressive cinematography gazing with unwavering patience into the faces of its four females.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Judith Crist
The cumulative moments, the reality of each fantasy and the phantasmagoria of existence combine for a work of genius -- certainly the most complex, the most perceptive and the most humane of Bergman's works to date.
Cinemaphile.org
David Keyes
Some have called it the most painful movie he ever made, and it is easy to see why: the three sisters at the center have lost the wisdom of compassion and replaced it with unending pathos.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Starring Sweden's best actresses, this is one of Ingmar Bergman's undisputed masterpieces, which was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
It's a beautifully photographed but painful film to watch.
Chicago Reader
Don Druker
The much-vaunted color symbolism is so obvious as to be almost charming in its simplicity, and the gothic ambience never really resonates.
Variety
Variety Staff
Ingmar Bergman's dark vision of the human condition has focused on individuals incapable of real inter-personal communications except on the most primitive level.
Filmcritic.com
Mark Athitakis
the hushed, interior tone fails to generate much drama, and the tension never explodes
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
A stunning piece of pure cinema by a master filmmaker.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
A masterpiece of color and mood.
Nick's Flick Picks
Nick Davis
The most haunting death story in the movies, exquisitely photographed, like a reverie just before the afterlife.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
It stands alone and it reduces almost everything else you're likely to see this season to the size of a small cinder.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Bergman never made another film this painful. To see it is to touch the extremes of human feeling. It is so personal, so penetrating of privacy, we almost want to look away.
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