Word: maria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bergman's films, the story-the premise-is meticulously simple. Two women, Karin (Ingrid Thulin) and Maria (Liv Ullmann), care for their sister Agnes (Harriet Andersson), who is dying of some awful unspecified illness. As they attend her during her last days, they remember and relive old memories of childhood, of deep bitterness and irresolvable rivalries. They touch each other, torment each other. The only source of strength in this stately, silent household is the stolid maid Anna (Kari Sylwan), whose own daughter has died and who lavishes all her love and her tenderness on Agnes...
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't sleep, I can't leave," she murmurs from her bed, quite unmoving but for a tear that runs down her cheek from under her closed eye. She tries to draw her sisters to her, but it is only Anna who responds, only Anna in her dream who offers...
...although the conception seems theatrical, the style is superbly cinematic. Bergman is a film maker of consummate craftsmanship. There are mo ments in Cries and Whispers that are among the most memorable he has ever filmed: an eager, unrestrained display of sudden mutual affection between Ka rin and Maria, a desperate fantasy of the sisters touching and talking to each other as the camera pans back and forth and no words are heard, only Bach's music; Agnes, dead, rising from her bed and blindly grasping and holding a hysterical Maria...
...MARIA GITIN...
FRIDAY: John Lennon and Yoko Ono The Lennons host Stevie Wonder, Sha Na Na, and Roberta Flack in an all-star performance from Madison Square Garden. Ch. 5. 10 p.m. Color. 60 min. SATURDAY--Viva Maria Brigitte Bardot and Jeonne Moreau play Maria I and Marin II, two strip-tease dancers caught up in a Central American revolution in this 1965 Louis Malle directed French slapstick. CH. 4. 9 p.m. Color. 2hrs .15min...