Word: dufvenius
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...years. A sequel of sorts to his Scenes from a Marriage in 1972, Saraband reunites the main couple, Johan (Erland Josephson) and Marianne (Liv Ullmann), for an icy tri-generational trauma that involves Johan?s widowed son Henrik (B?rje Ahlstedt) and Henrik?s teenage daughter Karin (Julia Dufvenius). The movie asks: How dependent is Henrik on the daughter he loves, perhaps to excess? How dependent is Johan on the son he hates? And how dependent are all of them on their memory of the beloved woman who was Henrik?s wife? Always forcing himself to peel emotions down...
...theaters only in that format), is not really a sequel to Scenes from a Marriage. It uses the two main figures from the earlier film to explore new relationships: Johan's with his son Henrik (Börje Ahlstedt) and Henrik's with his teenage daughter Karin (Julia Dufvenius). All three have been handicapped by desolation over the death of Henrik's much-loved wife Anna. Henrik, a failed musician, has transferred his ambition to Karin, a promising cellist. When Anna was alive, Henrik was lost in love with Anna; and, Karin says, "I was a little shut...
...moment when Karin is told of a career opportunity and the ecstasy of anticipation briefly floods her face, as radiant as that sunlit church. Bergman keeps energizing Saraband with such touchstones; he builds the edifice of the film on this latticework. And these superb actors - three veteran colleagues, one (Dufvenius) a newcomer in the great tradition of Bergman ingenues - give the characters sinew and subtlety...
...know, when actors do a movie with Ingmar we don?t ask, "What do you mean?" or "Is there really incest?" It's up to each of us to make a choice. I talked a lot to Julia Dufvenius, who played the daughter, and she didn't want to believe it either. So I think this is really up to the people who see it. But, obviously - probably - this was in Ingmar's mind, to describe an incestuous relationship. Whether they go the whole way or not maybe isn?t so important...
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