Capital Celluloid 2018 - Day 16: Tue Jan 16

Autumn Sonata (Bergman, 1978): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 8.45pm


This film, which is also screened on January 9th, 18th and 20th, is part of the Ingmar Bergman season at BFI Southbank. Full details here.

Time Out review: 
Now about these women... Mother (concert pianist Bergman) and daughter (parson's wife Ullmann) come face to face after seven years to touch, cry and whisper - and to confront and confess - in an atmosphere pregnant with death and disease, shame and silence. Routine obsessions, routine hysteria; maybe even a routine masterpiece. Of course Bergman's actresses suffer superbly in microscopic close-up, but the nagging doubt persists as to whether this is incisive psychodrama or just those old nordic blues again.
Paul Taylor


Here (and above) is the trailer.

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