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...Saraband...
...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...
...preparing a piece about Bergman and Saraband for the magazine, I was blessed to be able to speak with Ullmann. At 66, the Norwegian actress could comfortably retire after 40 years as an international star and the muse of Bergman in one of his most fertile filmmaking periods. Yet she has equaled her acting work by directing: four features, including two Bergman scripts, Private Confessions (1976) and Faithless (2000). A few Ullmann quotes illuminated the TIME story. Here is the meat of the interview, in which she speaks warmly about her life and career with Bergman and frankly about some...
...cases for the leads. For Private Confessions I wouldn't want to work with anyone else but Pernilla August [the actress who was married to director Bille] because she had played the same woman, Ingmar's mother, in Best Intentions. She even looks like Ingmar's mother. And in Saraband, the dead woman Anna, seen in a photograph - she also looks like Ingmar's mother...
...ULLMANN: Yes. When he writes, he knows more or less what he's getting. But there can still be surprises. The last scene in Saraband,, where I'm behind a table with all these photographs, I thought would be an incredible closeup where I would do some big-time acting. And it wasn't that at all. I asked him, "Why am I doing this?" He just said, "Do it and see what happens." He usually sits by the camera, but this time he didn't. He was sitting in a corner of the big room; we didn't even...