Like the original, this film was originally produced for television, but the film seems far deeper and more complex than any TV movie.
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07/08/05
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Saraband (2005)
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Reviews Counted:76
Fresh:71
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7.9/10
Consensus: If Saraband appears to be a minor entry in Ingmar Bergman's filmography, it's still an accomplished piece of work from one of cinema's greatest masters.
Theatrical Release:Jul 8, 2005 Limited
Box Office: $478,554
Synopsis: After their divorce, Johan and Marianne lost touch for many, many years. Johan, now a retired professor, has withdrawn to his grandparents' summerhouse in the western province of Dalarna. He... [More]
Starring: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Borje Ahlstedt, Julia Dufvenius
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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Reviews for Saraband
If Saraband should indeed turn out to be [Bergman's] final film, he has concluded his career triumphantly with a work of genius.
07/14/05
Top CriticA natural coda to a lifetime of shockingly clear-eyed bitterness ... Staggering out of the theater, sunlight feels like a novelty.
07/21/05
Bergman perceptively observes the subtleties of family psychology and creates dialogue that reveals complexities of character and relationships with riveting accuracy.
07/15/05
Watching old hands Ullmann and Josephson hit every nuance of feeling with consummate grace brings an odd giddiness to an otherwise sad tale.
07/08/05
A small made-for-TV project by some guy named Bergman that could well be one of the best films (perhaps even the best film) released in theatres this year.
06/01/05
So many great directors seem to go out with a whimper. Ingmar Bergman has gone out with a bang.
02/28/08
Like the Bach piece that gives it its title, Saraband is a stately, mournful movie.
07/28/05
An emotionally searing look at the ways we hurt the ones we love and the ones we have come to hate.
07/28/05
Top CriticInsightful as ever but a little dated in the set-up and treatment of the shooting.
04/01/06
Its leisurely, deliberative style is a perfect complement to the emotions it deals with - emotions so penetrating that I warn you at the outset how jarringly intense you may find Bergman's most brilliant drama in decades.
07/07/05
Any Bergman is better than most of the art-house dramas that have been shipped to the States from Europe in recent times.
01/28/06
This is 'Scenes from a Marriage' thirty years later.
10/17/04
A stunning and complex final bow from a stunning and complex artist.
08/11/05
Top CriticThe movie's title -- a lovely word that describes a sexy dance for two -- is either mordantly ironic or another instance of Bergman doffing his cap to the eros that courses through the most baleful of human relations.
07/07/05
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.
08/21/05
Ullmann and Josephson are old Bergman pros and have evidently learned, over the decades, how to act the roles he assigns them naturally and flawlessly.
07/28/05
If ultimately the highly talky Saraband comes across as a minor entry in the canon, it nonetheless marks a dignified farewell (and this time it really appears to be one) for one of cinema's greatest directors.
11/04/04
A poignant, powerful valedictory from one of the true masters of cinema.
07/29/05
In Ingmar Bergman's magisterial last film, we watch family members bare their souls and in their faces we see intimations of the grand emotions which animate us all.
10/15/04
Latest News for Saraband
July 30, 2007:
Legendary Director Ingmar Bergman dies at 89
Ingmar Bergman, the "poet with a camera," died in his sleep at his home in Faro, Sweden Monday at the age of 89. The director of such influential films as The Seventh Seal,... More...
October 05, 2005:
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