CRIES AND WHISPERS
VISKNIGAR OCH ROP
1972,
Janus Films,
106 min,
Sweden,
Dir: Ingmar Bergman
Amid the blood-red backgrounds of a turn-of-the-century mansion and the atmosphere of a dream, Liv Ullmann and Ingrid Thulin keep a death watch over spinster sister Harriet Andersson, while flashbacks depict the disappointed lives, meaningless marriages and sisterly conflicts, with a final moving image suggesting what has been lost. In Swedish with English subtitles.