Cries and Whispers (NC)

92 mins - Sweden 1972 - Subtitles - Dir: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Harriet Andersson, Liv Ullmann and Kari Sylwan
 
In Ingmar Bergman’s most resonant study of familial bonds, solitude, suffering and the female psyche, a dying woman is attended to in her rural mansion by her sisters and her maid.
 
The remarkable saturated colour scheme transcends mere recreation of early 20th-century furnishings and costumes, and performed to perfection, the film is an examination of the human soul. As critic Judith Crist wrote for her New York magazine review at the time of its original release, Cries and Whispers is "a work of genius— certainly the most complex, the most perceptive and the most humane of Bergman's works to date".
 
“Cries and Whispers is a great film, it must be experienced, not merely watched” Reel Views