Word: ullmanns
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...more intense and enduring because it is grounded in love. Charlotte, the mother (formidably played by Ingrid Bergman-no relation to Ingmar-in her first Swedish language film in decades), is a concert pianist, acclaimed and prosperous, sailing grandly into late middle age. Eva, the daughter (Liv Ullmann in granny glasses, with a few lines of graceful weathering allowed to be visible on her ineffable forehead), is a church organist, the wife of a country pastor, a woman soft, sweet and intelligent. They have not met in seven years, and it is evident that something other than the mother...
...solid enough as psychology, but if the exhausting process succeeds as drama-and a viewer finds himself veering toward mutiny-it is mostly because the two actresses are superb. We feel stingingly the hopeless adoration of the little girl of 30 years ago (played in brief flashback by Linn Ullmann, Liv's daughter) for the glittering mother who ignored her, and the destructive frustration of the mother who could not show the emotion except through the ordered avenues of music...
...interrogate him about his taxes. Last week, after a victory in the tax courts, Bergman was back directing in the same theater. Earlier, he had celebrated his 60th-birth-day party on the Baltic island of Faro. On hand were his eight children (by four wives plus Liv Ullmann), along with the four children of his fifth wife Ingrid. Bergman gave a smile of a summer night when Linn, his daughter by Ullmann, presented him with a crown of wildflowers...
...trapeze act. The picture opens with Abel discovering the brother's suicide. This places him under police suspicion because a number of people he has known have died similarly violent and mysterious deaths. While the cops investigate, Abel takes up desultorily with his brother's widow (Liv Ullmann). They are befriended by an acquaintance of their youth, now a doctor (Heinz Bennent) doing some sort of secret research at a nearby hospital. Since he carries himself in the manner of Helmut Dantine when he was playing Gestapo officers some 35 years ago, one can guess that the doctor...
...Changing, Ullmann...