list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Autumn Sonata on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Autumn_Sonata/1966/default.aspx Title: Autumn Sonata
Year: 1978
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Plot: Ingrid Bergman, the Swedish expatriate who became one of Hollywood's greatest stars, and Ingmar Bergman, one of the world's most acclaimed filmmakers and Sweden's most honored director, worked together for the first and only time in this intensely personal drama about the troubled relationship between a mother and daughter. Charlotte (Ingrid Bergman) is an acclaimed concert pianist who is visiting her daughter Eva (Liv Ullmann), the wife of a parson in a rural community, for the first time in seven years. While Charlotte and Eva struggle to be civil, there is a deep emotional gulf between them. Eva resents her mother for not caring enough for her as a child, feeling that Charlotte was more interested in her career and her other daughter, Helena (Lena Nyman), who is severely handicapped and can only communicate through inarticulate noises. Charlotte, on the other hand, is uncomfortable with the fact that Helena now lives with Eva, and she is still coming to terms with the emotional devastation of her husband's recent death. Herbstsonate, released in America as Autumn Sonata, earned Ingrid Bergman some of the most enthusiastic acclaim of her career; she received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, and she won the same honor from the National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics Circle. It was also her last theatrical release; she would appear in only one more project, a TV movie about the life of Golda Meir, before her death in 1982. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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]]>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:14:58 GMTAutumn Sonata1978Ingmar Bergman<a href="/players/P_____5652/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Ingrid Bergman</a>, the Swedish expatriate who became one of Hollywood's greatest stars, and <a href="/players/P____81548/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Ingmar Bergman</a>, one of the world's most acclaimed filmmakers and Sweden's most honored director, worked together for the first and only time in this intensely personal drama about the troubled relationship between a mother and daughter. Charlotte (<a href="/players/P_____5652/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Ingrid Bergman</a>) is an acclaimed concert pianist who is visiting her daughter Eva (<a href="/players/P___114863/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Liv Ullmann</a>), the wife of a parson in a rural community, for the first time in seven years. While Charlotte and Eva struggle to be civil, there is a deep emotional gulf between them. Eva resents her mother for not caring enough for her as a child, feeling that Charlotte was more interested in her career and her other daughter, Helena (Lena Nyman), who is severely handicapped and can only communicate through inarticulate noises. Charlotte, on the other hand, is uncomfortable with the fact that Helena now lives with Eva, and she is still coming to terms with the emotional devastation of her husband's recent death. Herbstsonate, released in America as Autumn Sonata, earned <a href="/players/P_____5652/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Ingrid Bergman</a> some of the most enthusiastic acclaim of her career; she received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, and she won the same honor from the National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics Circle. It was also her last theatrical release; she would appear in only one more project, a TV movie about the life of Golda Meir, before her death in 1982. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide5Slightly Tagged (1-5)1614http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t04656jex00.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Autumn_Sonata/1966/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/cinemarian/archive/2008/5/14/29069.aspx Post By: CinemaRian
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Post Date: 5/14/2008 12:09:51 AM
Body: Have you ever met someone who for no reason started telling you about their family troubles, and as sympatheic as you were, you just didn't care? That's essentially what this movie is like. To say that this is lesser Igmar Bergman is an understatement. The film is a essentailly a four-character piece. Eva (Liv Ullmann) and her minister husband, Viktor (Halvar Bjork) are caring for Eva's sister Helena (Lena Nyman) who is dying of a degenerative brain disease, when they are visited by Eva's and Helena's mother Charlotte (Ingrid Bergman), a famous pianist who they havn't seen for seven years. Although Eva and Charlotte try to be polite, the old conflicts they had come out very quickly, and they spend most of the day and night arguing. I think Kristen accuratley pointed out the biggest problem with the movie- mean as it may sound, there is no reason to care about these people. The characters are boring. Also, I think that Bergman has gone to the same dyfunctional relationships well one to many times. This is essentially a short version of Scenes From a Marrige with mother and daughter instead of a husband and wife, with a touch of Cries and Whispers (the dying sister) thrown in. Another problem is the photography by Sven Nykvist, it's gorgeous and it shouldn't be. This movie should have looked for more gritty- the warm tones that Nykvist uses are too upbeat for such a downer of a story. There are some good aspects, such as the acting. Ingrid Bergman, in her last theatrical feature, goes out on a high note, and Liv Ullman is excellent as usual. Is there any actress who seems to be as emotionally naked on screen as Ullman? I was on the boarder line about this movie, it's much better than the other Bergman movie I gave two and half stars, to, The Serpent's Egg. But I can't really reccomend the movie as an experince a veiwer will get much out of. Scenes from a Marridge seemed to say a lot about humans and how they relate to each other. Using that standard, this film fails to say anything I don't already know about parents and children, or say it in a new way. Instead I would like to direct you another Igmar Bergman film made in 1978 about mothers and daughters-Interiors-only it's in English and directed by Woody Allen Autumn Sonata (1978)
]]>Wed, 14 May 2008 04:09:51 GMTCinemaRianCinemaRian Blog5/14/2008 12:09:51 AMHave you ever met someone who for no reason started telling you about their family troubles, and as sympatheic as you were, you just didn't care? That's essentially what this movie is like. To say that this is lesser Igmar Bergman is an understatement. The film is a essentailly a four-character piece. Eva (Liv Ullmann) and her minister husband, Viktor (Halvar Bjork) are caring for Eva's sister Helena (Lena Nyman) who is dying of a degenerative brain disease, when they are visited by Eva's and Helena's mother Charlotte (Ingrid Bergman), a famous pianist who they havn't seen for seven years. Although Eva and Charlotte try to be polite, the old conflicts they had come out very quickly, and they spend most of the day and night arguing. I think Kristen accuratley pointed out the biggest problem with the movie- mean as it may sound, there is no reason to care about these people. The characters are boring. Also, I think that Bergman has gone to the same dyfunctional relationships well one to many times. This is essentially a short version of Scenes From a Marrige with mother and daughter instead of a husband and wife, with a touch of Cries and Whispers (the dying sister) thrown in. Another problem is the photography by Sven Nykvist, it's gorgeous and it shouldn't be. This movie should have looked for more gritty- the warm tones that Nykvist uses are too upbeat for such a downer of a story. There are some good aspects, such as the acting. Ingrid Bergman, in her last theatrical feature, goes out on a high note, and Liv Ullman is excellent as usual. Is there any actress who seems to be as emotionally naked on screen as Ullman? I was on the boarder line about this movie, it's much better than the other Bergman movie I gave two and half stars, to, The Serpent's Egg. But I can't really reccomend the movie as an experince a veiwer will get much out of. Scenes from a Marridge seemed to say a lot about humans and how they relate to each other. Using that standard, this film fails to say anything I don't already know about parents and children, or say it in a new way. Instead I would like to direct you another Igmar Bergman film made in 1978 about mothers and daughters-Interiors-only it's in English and directed by Woody Allen Autumn Sonata (1978) http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/teenagers/MemberTagFilms.aspxteenagers
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