Ingmar Bergman: Saraband
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Why Bergman got the job: Because the director of "The Seventh Seal" (1956), "Cries and Whispers" (1972), "Fanny and Alexander" (1982), and many others is one of the 20th century's most important artists.
And he's decided that this will be the last film of his incomparable 60-year career. (He's said this before, but at 87 one senses he really means it this time.) Bergman's final bow is an emotionally demanding, yet riveting sequel to "Scenes From a Marriage," reuniting Ullmann and Josephson as the now-long-divorced couple Marianne and Johan. It's a kind of psychological detective story in which Marianne, now an artist and writer, calls on Johan, now a millionaire, at the latter's secluded house and probes the tortured relationship between her ex, his son from a previous marriage and the latter's daughter, a talented cellist. Intense and often forbiddingly austere, the movie also offers serene pleasure in watching old pros Ullmann and Josephson at work for their old boss for one last dance. (And the saraband is, by the way, a form of dance.)
Release date: July 8 (limited)
Who's starring: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson.
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