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Sweden 1999 / 35 mm / Color / 155 min. | |||
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Written by Ingmar Bergman and loosely based on a true episode in the director's life, this is the story of three adults caught in a love triangle and the devastating consequences. Marianne is happily married to Markus, a successful conductor and they have a nine-year-old daughter, Isabelle. Markus' best friend, David, twice divorced, spends much time at Marianne's and Markus' apartment, and he is Isabelle's favourite storyteller. One night, when Markus is away, David visits the flat as usual. But something changes and what was once a safe, platonic relationship between Marianne and David is suddenly altered. Marianne now sees him in a different light. She finds him both emotionally and sexually attractive. Lena Endre gives a towering performance (as Marianne)... Her chiseled face, which appears in almost every frame, seems to reflect every possible facet of human emotion. -- Jocelyn Noveck (Associated Press) The unfaithfulness that Ingmar Bergman depicts in the film is not a conscious unfaithfulness, not an act of will. To live in a state of unfaithfulness at the turn of the millennium is simply a way of life more and more people choose to live. The moral dictates disappear. Here, two men and a woman decide to play an adult game: let us love a little dangerously, let us be happy together, let us forget what is good and what is evil. Then, suddenly, everything collapses. Tragedy strikes. Everyone is unfaithful... As I see it, the light in the story is that we can forget the hours that were full of suffering. What we must never forget is what they taught us. -- Liv Ullmann |
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| Script: Ingmar Bergman. Phot.: J�rgen Persson. Ed.: Sylvia Ingemarsson. Cast: Lena Endre, Erland Josephson, Krister Henriksson, Thomas Hanzon, Michelle Gylemo, Juni Dahr, Philip Zanden, Therese Brunnander, Marie Richardson, Stina Ekblad, Johan Rabaeus, Jan-Olof Strandberg, Bj�rn Granath, Gertrud Stenung. Prod.: Kaj Larsen, Swedish Television, Hang�v�g 18, 10610 Stockholm (Su�de), t�l.: (46-8) 784 74 00 / AB Svensk Filmindustri, Dialoggat 6, 12783 Stockholm (Su�de), t�l.: (46-8) 680 35 00, fax: (46-8) 710 44 22. Sales: Svensk Filmindustri. | |||
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Liv Ullmann One of the most distinguished actresses of the contemporary cinema, Liv Ullmann was born in Tokyo in 1938 to Norwegian parents and spent the war years in Canada and the United States. After studying drama in England, Ullmann launched her acting career in the Scandinavian theatre, where her work caught the eye of director Ingmar Bergman. She quickly became Bergman's favorite actress and has since starred in films around the world. In recent years Ullmann has been active in humanitarian work, on behalf of UNICEF, as vice-chairman of the refugee aid organization IRC and as co-founder of the Women for Refugee Children Worldwide. She has written two books, Changing in 1976 and Choices in 1984. In 1992 she made an auspicious debut as a feature director with SOFIE, which was followed by KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER (1995) and PRIVATE CONFESSIONS (1996). |