Autumn Sonata (1978)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Now about these women... Mother (concert pianist Bergman) and daughter (parson's wife Ullmann) come face to face after seven years to touch, cry and whisper - and to confront and confess - in an atmosphere pregnant with death and disease, shame and silence. Routine obsessions, routine hysteria; maybe even a routine masterpiece. Of course Bergman's actresses suffer superbly in microscopic close-up, but the nagging doubt persists as to whether this is incisive psychodrama or just those old nordic blues again.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman, Halver Björk, Gunnar Björnstrand full cast
Duration: 92 mins
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