![]() and as i said earlier, ingrid and ignmar have rarely (maybe never)been better. it's not often that people see a film with such realistic portrrait of the human condition. i could write more, but i want everyone who reads this to go see this movie without my crappy opinions ruining it. although her scene in the beginning is powerful, her other two appearances,(although brief) are way over-the-top, almost as bad as jar-jar binks in phantom menace. although i praise this film, i wouldn't give this movie a 10 because of nyman's character. The Ultimate Guide to Finding the Video You Really Want to Watch Andrea Shaw. i hate to admit it, but there was a lump in my throat at this point in the film. i'm not going to spoil it for you, but it's the scene when eva walks amongst cemetery headstones while charlotte takes the train out of town. The heart of the scenario is that Eva (Liv Ullmann) lives a quiet life in the country with her husband Viktor (Halvar Bjrk), and incredibly boring but stable man, and her sister Helena (Lena Nyman), who has a disability that leaves her with negligible control over her body and a difficulty forming words, such that Eva is the only person with wh. at this films end, the most punishing scenes occur. in an effort to deconstruct himself, he looked at another icon to drive home his point of childhood pain and adult insecurities. this may be ingmar's own reaction to his own short-comings as a husband and father (7 kids/4 marriages). i've always remembered ingrid as a beautiful painted rose on the screen (for whom the bell tolls, anyone?), but when this film ends, all we see is ingrid's tear-stained face. liv ullman, who plays eva, (the married daughter), has usually been portayed as a non-confrontational person in her collaborations with ingmar, yet her persona in this film is slightly reserved in the beginning, but all her inhibitions are unleashed upon charlotte. she returns to visit after 7 years, and that's when the sparks fly. and the other (helena, played by 60's swedish film star lena nyman) is left virtually paralyzed. one daughter is married, yet is incapable of feeling love. ingrid's character,charlotte, is a successful concert pianist yet unsuccessful mother who returns to see her two daughters and a son-in-law. yet this technique showed a side of ingrid the world has never seen before. ingmar would command long takes, and sven would put the camera inches from her face. in this film, however, all control of imaging was in the hands of her swedish counterparts ingmar bergman and sven nykvist, and the image they created of her was deconstructive of her screen persona, yet not in her brilliance and ability as an actress. she was portrayed, more often than not, as a strong and goddess-like character (casablanca, anyone?). ![]() during ingrid's prime, she had considerable control of her image in hollywood. yet, despite her condition, this became, to me at least, her swan-song performance. i don't know what her financial situation was at the time, but i do know that her fee for starring in this film was much less than she was used to. due to the fact that insurance companies in hollywood rarely secure contracts with ill actors, ingrid had to take what she could while she was still alive. Ingrid berman was diagnosed with terminal cancer shortly before she agreed to star in this film. ![]()
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