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Autumn Sonata (1978)
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"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 w ... "
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