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...With the same intensity as he loves Karin, Henrik loathes his cold-fish father. "I hate him so much I'd happily watch him die of some horrible disease," he tells the shocked Marianne when they meet in the deserted village church. "I'd visit him daily and take note of his torment down to the last breath." Johan is equally venomous, telling his son, "If you didn't have Karin, who, thank God, takes after her mother, you wouldn't exist for me at all." But behind his contempt is the ache of envy. Johan, whom Marianne describes...
...like epiphanies in the January snow. In church, after Marianne has been singed by Henrik's rage against his father, beams of sunlight burst through the window; it is the visual counterpart of the organ chord that greeted Marianne as she entered. Later there's a privileged 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...
...inevitable. So know that Saraband is dedicated to Ingrid, Bergman?s fifth wife, who died in 1995; she likely inspired the film's much-mourned Anna. Bergman's relationships with his children, especially his sons, were often stormy. One child he did feel close to, as Johan does to Karin in the film, was Maria von Rosen, Ingrid's daughter by a previous marriage. Last year Bergman revealed that Maria was his own daughter, and published Three Diaries, which described Ingrid's last days from her own, her husband's and her daughter?s journals...
...TIME: There is something like Greek tragedy in the relationships of father and son - Johan and Henrik - and then father and daughter - Henrik and Karin...
...TIME: Henrik and Karin's relationship is very complicated. There's a perplexing moment when Karen comes back into the cottage she shares with her father and says, "Things are going to have to change! I'm going to bed!" She takes off her shirt and strides into the bedroom - and in the next scene Henrik is in bed with...