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...Once the brand name of serious cinema, later ignored, left for dead, Bergman roared back at age 85 with his first film made for theatrical release in 20 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...
...first few minutes of Saraband, certain viewers will slip instantly into the world of Ingmar Bergman. The immediate clue is the presence of two familiar actors, Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson, stalwarts of the Swedish writer-director's informal repertory troupe. Here they are revisiting the roles they played in the 1972 Scenes from a Marriage, to which the new work is not so much a sequel as a descendant. There are also echoes of a dozen or more of Bergman's despairing, exhilarating films. The old themes nudge you: death, and those who aspire to it; love...
...think the reason he did this film is because, when Erland Josephson and I did Faithless, we were joking a lot. And we made some kind of goof version of Scenes from a Marriage, showing that we were really gaga, strange, and old. And I sent it to Ingmar just...
...that he would write a part [for an actress] if he knows that she wouldn't really understand it. If he thinks she can understand it, then he'll write it for her. Certainly he wouldn't have done this movie if it didn?t have Erland and he didn't have...
...know that happened to other actors too. In the scene where Erland is naked, you know, everything that Erland also as a person felt then, Ingmar allowed Erland also to feel the shame of being naked and the feeling of being old, and create from there. Ingmar gives us that freedom, that faith, with which this can happen. And that's why Erland was so incredible in so many of the movies because he got the faith to be something else...