Word: saraband
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...Bergman wasn't kidding. Most of his 60-some films, from his 1944 screenwriting debut with the schoolroom drama Torment through his swan song Saraband, released in the U.S. in 2005, were about the plague of the modern soul - the demons and doubts, secrets and lies that men and woman evaded but were forced to confront, to their peril. This agonized Swede was a surgeon who operated on himself. He cut into his own fears, analyzed his failings, perhaps sought forgiveness through art. He may never have found that expiation; he lived his last years alone on remote Faro island...
...knowing - though they might be expected to connect with the dark, near-suicidal introspection of his films, with their sense of a tortured psyche swirling into the quicksand of its own making. In 2005, when I proposed a TIME feature on Bergman to coincide with the U.S. release of Saraband, none of the college-age interns that summer had heard...
...part so he could be with her. Ullmann became his muse for the next decade, most indelibly in the TV-serial-turned-film Scenes from a Marriage. She would also direct films from two of his late scripts, Private Confessions and Faithless, and star in his last work, Saraband, a sequel of sorts to Scenes from a Marriage...
...Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann. Her soft features and stern resolve inspired a string of stern masterworks, starting with 1966's Persona, in which she played a mute actress. Ullmann was no mere Trilby to Bergman's Svengali. She became his eloquent interpreter, later directing two of his screenplays. Saraband (2003), with Bergman again directing and Ullmann starring, marks nearly 40 years of an exemplary partnership that began with the five films in this fine collection...
...deceits and embarrassments may not sound particularly hilarious, but, trust me, it is. Baumbach?s sympathy for the all-too-human spectacle of lust pratfalling over itself makes the film as funny as it is painful. The only appropriate response to this lacerating brood - whose troubles make the Saraband family, by comparison, seem like the Andersons from Father Knows Best - is the laughter of shock and compassion...