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Jan 4, 2004 · Saraband: Directed by Ingmar Bergman. With Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Börje Ahlstedt, Julia Dufvenius. Marianne, some thirty years after divorcing Johan, decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home.
Saraband is a 2003 Swedish drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman, and his final film. It was made for Swedish television, but released theatrically in a longer cut outside Sweden. Its United States theatrical release, with English subtitles, was in July 2005.
A chamber piece performed by four wounded characters and suffused with disappointment and forgiveness, Saraband is a generous farewell to cinema from one of its greatest artists. With his final film, Ingmar Bergman returned to two of his most richly drawn characters: Johan (Erland Josephson) and Marianne (Liv Ullman), the couple from Scenes ...
Following Johan (Erland Josephson) and Marianne (Liv Ullmann) 30 years after the events of "Scenes from a Marriage," this sequel finds the couple long since divorced and remarried. After Johan ...
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Saraband, Ingmar Bergman’s last work of cinema, picks up two characters from his 1973 TV mini-series Scenes from a Marriage thirty years later to explore the deep seeded hatred, glorified love, self-sacrifices, and repressed feelings of family.
Aug 4, 2005 · We know from Bergman's autobiography that the story is loosely based on fact. We know, too, that Liv Ullmann, who is directing it, was also Bergman's lover, and had his daughter. If "Faithless" was an attempt to face persona guilt, "Saraband" is a meditation on the pathology of selfish relationships.
Dec 1, 2003 · Overview. In this sequel to Scenes from a Marriage (1973), we revisit the characters of Johan and Marianne, then a married couple. After their divorce, Johan and Marianne haven't seen each other for 32 years. Marianne is still working, as a divorce lawyer.
Saraband - Sony Pictures Classics. A poignant drama that reunites the characters of Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage after 30 years. A masterpiece of human emotions and relationships.
SARABAND - the acclaimed follow-up to the Golden Globe-winning Best Foreign Film, Scenes From a Marriage - is director Ingmar Bergman's last statement on film, "a powerful and poignant final roar from the grand old man of cinema" (Richard Corliss, Time).
Saraband retains the penetrating, distilled intensity of Bergman's late period masterworks but infused with the unsentimental, but gentle humor of distanced perspective and thoughtful reflection. Rather than a nostalgic swan song, Bergman has created another provocative chapter in his enduring expositions into the most fundamental human need ...
