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...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? And how dependent...
...ULLMANN: Not at all! I know so much of the stories that are happening in real life, and I know that you really hit the nail...
...ULLMANN: Yes, he wouldn't work with someone who hadn't been part of stage life. I think all his actors always have to belong to the stage. And, obviously, we get the whole script. He also feels that we are bright enough, have time to see enough, experience enough, to read into it what we understand of the characters. So he will never say what you are thinking, or why you are doing something. He will give the blockings; then he will sit and watch. He may be very inspired by an actor who is giving him something that...
...ULLMANN: But absolutely. Both Bille August and I wouldn't do anything that wasn't Ingmar?s choice. But the choices were so obvious in all the 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...