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Saraband
Directed by
Ingmar Bergman
R
2003
2h
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Marianne, some thirty years after divorcing Johan, decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family drama between Johan's son from another marriage and his granddaughter.
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Cast of Saraband
Liv Ullmann
Marianne
Erland Josephson
Johan
Börje Ahlstedt
Henrik
Julia Dufvenius
Karin
Gunnel Fred
Martha
Ingmar Bergman
Director / Writer
Pia Ehrnvall
Producer
Saraband Ratings & Reviews
Newsweek
David Ansen
With Saraband, the great writer-director has stepped back into the ring for one last epic wrestle with his demons. There is, as always, no easy outcome. But no one ever fought for higher emotional and spiritual stakes.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
While bringing an abundance of inspiration to this world, Bergman unapologetically refused to ignore the pain and darkness that infects mankind. There will never be another filmmaker like him.
Washington Post
Tim Page
The performances -- welling, unified and multidimensional -- are beyond praise, as are Bergman's visual images.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
A pure distillation of the great director's ongoing themes of the frailty of the human psyche and mankind's willful inability to accept the inevitable, whatever that may be.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
A stunning and complex final bow from a stunning and complex artist.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
What remain intact are the filmmaker's unbreakable heart, lyrical soul and sublime art. So why should we say goodbye? Instead: Bravo. Encore.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The performances are perfectly distilled, but the traits I dislike in Bergman are all here -- self-pity, brutality, spiritual constipation, and an unwillingness to try to overcome these difficulties.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Saraband, flat and static both visually and thematically, doesn't begin to approximate the austere beauty of the director's art-house classics.
Arizona Republic
Richard Nilsen
Saraband shows absolutely no sign that Bergman has run out of things to say or ways to say them -- it is as fresh and direct as any he's made.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Powerfully, painfully honest.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
Ullmann, in her mid-60s, and Josephson, in his early 80s, still know how to build fascinating characters.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
An emotionally searing look at the ways we hurt the ones we love and the ones we have come to hate.
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
Performed in a series of devastating duets, it's so mature and authentic that it feels like an alien presence in the current (i.e. shallow) movie landscape.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
If Saraband is not one of the best Bergman films, it's a very good one and a valuable statement from a great artist in old age.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
This is just great filmmaking, great storytelling, and just stays with you for so long afterwards.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Think of Saraband ... as an after-dinner mint: a film that looks in on the same characters three decades later and finds their rage both cooled and passed down to the next generation.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
If Saraband should indeed turn out to be [Bergman's] final film, he has concluded his career triumphantly with a work of genius.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Like watching four people take turns trying to swim with one of the others clinging to an ankle. It's grim and gripping.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
This is as bitter and despairing an exploration of the human spirit as any of [Bergman's] films, and it is just as vibrantly written and directed.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Bergman has never been an ordinary filmmaker, and what he's given us is no genial last hurrah but rather an intensely dramatic, at times lacerating examination of life's conundrums that is exhilarating in its fearlessness and its command.
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