Word: agnese
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As the devil, Edward Mulhare is an urbane charmer, and Paul Henreid's Commendatore and Agnes Moore-head's Dona Ana are all that could be asked. In the title role, Ricardo Montalban is superb, no libertine at all, but Shaw incarnate, with his puritan passion for exposing...
Cries and Whispers concerns-again very simply-the desperate imperative of achieving grace. Maria reaches out toward Karin, Anna toward Agnes, and Agnes, through the intensity of her suffering, toward peace and toward God. Death, at least as dreamed by Anna, affords no real release for Agnes. "I can'...
Turmoil and Panic. After the dream is ended, after the funeral and the departure of the two sisters, who have again become locked into their emotional stalemate, Anna opens the leatherbound diary in which Agnes has made entries during her illness. She reads Agnes' account of a day during...
The trouble with this, the reason that we cannot fully accept it, is that Bergman's anguish is so much more intense than this final fillip of grace. The despair is so much deeper than the redemption. There are but a few fleeting glimpses from Agnes' diary; perhaps...
The film, set unspecifically near the turn of the century, recalls Bergman's National Theatre staging of Hedda Gabler. Here, as in that production, the dominant color motif is red of a dark, smothering, somehow vaguely menacing hue. "Don't ask me why it must be so because...