Word: ostergren
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result is a decorous, resonant three-hour memory film, distilled from a six-hour TV mini-series. Henrik Bergman (Samuel Froler) is a theology student who, it is said, "needs someone to love, so he won't hate himself so much." Anna (Pernilla Ostergren) is a bourgeois princess who finds flint beneath her gentility as she learns to love -- and forces herself to stay with -- this difficult man as he establishes his ministry in a small town. She must find comfort in moments of domestic grace: a chat with her loving father (Max von Sydow), a caress of her pregnant...
...begin with the human face," Bergman said, and he filled his screen with the faces of many great actresses, from Bibi and Harriet Andersson to Liv Ullmann and Lena Olin. Even after retiring as a film director, Bergman was still an ace casting director. This time he insisted that Ostergren, who played the maid in Fanny and Alexander, be cast as Anna. It is the film's great coup. She is not exactly beautiful, but her conviction and radiance carry the story's emotional burden: that such a woman could love such a man. The strength of her love...
August must be doubly pleased that he acceded to Bergman's request. In May the director was onstage at the Cannes Film Festival to receive the top prize for Intentions. Standing next to him was the festival's Best Actress: his bride Pernilla Ostergren August...