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...preparing a piece about Bergman and Saraband for the magazine, I was blessed to be able to speak with Ullmann. At 66, the Norwegian actress could comfortably retire after 40 years as an international star and the muse of Bergman in one of his most fertile filmmaking periods. Yet she has equaled her acting work by directing: four features, including two Bergman scripts, Private Confessions (1976) and Faithless (2000). A few Ullmann quotes illuminated the TIME story. Here is the meat of the interview, in which she speaks warmly about her life and career with Bergman and frankly about some...
...TIME: Since Ingmar Bergman had written scripts over the past 20 years, and entrusted them to directors like yourself, I wonder what forced him back behind the camera this time...
...TIME: Of course, there are ghosts a-plenty in Bergman's films...
...TIME: The magnificent twist that Bergman runs in his characters is to make them do monstrous things yet make them, if not sympathetic, certainly pitiable. And with Henrik, I think we can see that Karen is his only link to Anna. Because the look the two people exchange before they kiss has tremendous compassion in it. And I could see that Henrik might be carried away by the memory of Anna...
...BERGMAN DIRECTS...