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- Bizarre and magnificently unnerving in its configuration of human emotion, there's a palpable discomfort to Cries and Whispers, with Sven Nyqvist's impressive cinematography gazing with unwavering patience into the faces of its four females.
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Aug 18, 2002 · When “Cries and Whispers” was released, it had an impact greater than any other Bergman film except for “The Seventh Seal” and “Persona.” In an extraordinary achievement for a foreign film, it won Academy nominations for best picture, director, screenplay and cinematography.
All of "Cries and Whispers" is occupied with passion - but the passion is inside, the characters can't get it out of themselves. None of them can, except Anna (Kari Sylwan). The film descends into a netherworld of the supernatural; the dead woman speaks (or is it only that they think they hear her?).
As Agnes (Harriet Andersson) slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so deeply immersed in their own psychic pains that they can't offer her the support she needs. Maria (Liv Ullmann) is wracked ...
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'Whispers and Cries') is a 1972 Swedish period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann. The film, set in a mansion at the end of the 19th century, is about three sisters and a servant who struggle with the terminal cancer of one of the sisters (Andersson).
Bizarre and magnificently unnerving in its configuration of human emotion, there's a palpable discomfort to Cries and Whispers, with Sven Nyqvist's impressive cinematography gazing with unwavering...
Cries and Whispers. This existential wail of a drama concerns two sisters, Karin (Ingrid Thulin) and Maria (Liv Ullmann), keeping vigil for a third, Agnes (Harriet Andersson), who is dying of cancer and can find solace only in the arms of a beatific servant (Kari Sylwan).
Mar 29, 2022 · Cries And Whispers is one of Bergman’s most draining and yet emotionally resonant films – part Henrik Ibsen, part Yasujiro Ozu, it’s his only film to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, and 50 years on it has lost none of it’s power.
