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Autumn Sonata (1978) [The Criterion Collection #60] (2013 Reissue)

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Date: 28 Jun 2014 13:19:08

Autumn Sonata (1978) [The Criterion Collection #60] (2013 Reissue)

Ingrid Bergman, the Swedish expatriate who became one of Hollywood's greatest stars, and Ingmar Bergman, one of the world's most acclaimed filmmakers and Sweden's most honored director, worked together for the first and only time in this intensely personal drama about the troubled relationship between a mother and daughter. Charlotte (Ingrid Bergman) is an acclaimed concert pianist who is visiting her daughter Eva (Liv Ullmann), the wife of a parson in a rural community, for the first time in seven years. While Charlotte and Eva struggle to be civil, there is a deep emotional gulf between them. Eva resents her mother for not caring enough for her as a child, feeling that Charlotte was more interested in her career and her other daughter, Helena (Lena Nyman), who is severely handicapped and can only communicate through inarticulate noises. Charlotte, on the other hand, is uncomfortable with the fact that Helena now lives with Eva, and she is still coming to terms with the emotional devastation of her husband's recent death. Herbstsonate, released in America as Autumn Sonata, earned Ingrid Bergman some of the most enthusiastic acclaim of her career; she received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, and she won the same honor from the National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics Circle. It was also her last theatrical release; she would appear in only one more project, a TV movie about the life of Golda Meir, before her death in 1982.

Synopsis by Mark Deming, Allmovie.com

This was famous Hollywood actress and Swedish expatriate Ingrid Bergman's first Swedish film in 40 years and was her last feature film before her death from cancer. It was the first time she worked with the great Swedish director Ingmar Bergman ("Persona"/"Scenes from a Marriage"/"Cries and Whispers"). It's a highly emotionally charged psychological drama about the troubled relationship between a mother and daughter. In other words, it's a typical Bergman personal drama about having the Nordic blues. The intense chamber music film is most like a Strindberg play.

After not seeing each other for seven years, Eva (Liv Ullmann), the reserved wife of a parson named Viktor (Liv Ullmann), invites her world famous concert pianist mother Charlotte Andergast (Ingrid Bergman) to visit during autumn in her beautiful country parsonage home in Norway. Mom's Italian lover Leonardo, of the last 18 years, has just died. The girls are momentarily cheered to be united again and in understated conversations, with plenty of close-ups and flashbacks, soon express their concerns, regrets and suffering. Mom has to confront her guilt-trip of abandoning her daughter to pursue her career and her present loneliness, while the daughter faces up to her inadequacies and her needs that were never fulfilled in childhood leaving her emotionally scarred. There's hope that this visit will result in many more such visits, as the girls aired out many things they never had a chance to talk about so intimately before and leave with a tentative feeling of forgiveness for past omissions (such deep hurts do not heal from just one visit).

Ingrid displays flashes of greatness as she's able to bring to her character a range that stretches from naivety to worldly sophistication and from gaiety to tears. Too bad this was the only film the Bergmans (not related) made together. Liv matches Ingrid's great performance with a very moving one of her own, especially in the hysterical scene where she points her finger at mom's abandonment of her in her time of greatest need. Even while playing a Chopin prelude, Liv brings many facial expressions of how she's nervous and trying to impress her distant mother. This very good Ingrid and Ingmar Bergman film is very easy to love for its honesty and passion and wholesome belief in the importance of making a connection with one's family.

Review by Dennis Schwartz: "Ozus' World Movie Reviews"

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Director: Ingmar Bergman

Writers: Ingmar Bergman

Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman, Halvar Björk and other

Special Features:

- New 2K digital film restoration
- Introduction by director Ingmar Bergman from 2003
- Audio commentary featuring Bergman expert Peter Cowie
- The Making of “Autumn Sonata,” a three-and-a-half-hour program examining every aspect of the production
- New interview with actor Liv Ullmann
- A 1981 conversation between actor Ingrid Bergman and critic John Russell Taylor at the National Film Theatre in London
- Trailer
- English-dubbed track
- New English subtitle translation

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