Saraband (2005)
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Borje Ahlstedt, Julia Dufvenius, Gunnel Fred
DVD Info
Release:
Jan 10, 2006
DVD Features:
- Anamorphic - 1.78
Audio:
- Dolby Surround Sound - Swedish
- Subtitles - English, French, Portuguese - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Behind the Scenes - "The Making-of SARABAND"
- Trailers - Sony Pictures Previews
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Reviews
We find [Bergman]at 87, sifting through his pictures, wondering at the choices he's made.
Insightful as ever but a little dated in the set-up and treatment of the shooting.
Powerful and more than a little depressing, but it's also essential filmmaking for anyone who cares about one of the giants of cinema.
Any Bergman is better than most of the art-house dramas that have been shipped to the States from Europe in recent times.
While bringing an abundance of inspiration to this world, Bergman unapologetically refused to ignore the pain and darkness that infects mankind. There will never be another filmmaker like him.
confessional outbursts are captured in lengthy takes, usually in mercilessly tight close-ups.... It's as if Bergman is taking X-rays of their souls.
Even if it is, as he claims, his last film, Saraband will be a testament to Bergman's skill as a filmmaker, still a creative force to be reckoned with after 60-plus years in the business.
The performances -- welling, unified and multidimensional -- are beyond praise, as are Bergman's visual images.
Like the best of Ingmar Bergman's films, Saraband has a hypnotic quality that draws in audiences who are patient.
A haunting series of heartbreaking duets between people for whom love is distant and death is uncomfortably close.
Most films are so insipid that there's something perversely refreshing about a movie in which a monstrous father compliments his son for his 'healthy dose of hatred...'
Bergman is still at the top of his game, every bit as much in control of his faculties for deciphering human misery.
Rumored to be the Swedish maestro's swan song, this is a major work of art, with all the thematic and formal features, an uncompromisingly honest, harrowing family portrait.
A pure distillation of the great director's ongoing themes of the frailty of the human psyche and mankind’s willful inability to accept the inevitable, whatever that may be.
clearly understands how to involve the audience with his somber material
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