Ingmar Bergman’s original screenplay was also nominated, one of his nine career total as writer, producer, and director. The three-time Academy Award winner ( Gaslight, Anastasia, Murder on the Orient Express ) delivers a searing performance that brought her a best actress nomination in 1978, her seventh and final nod overall. Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann invest their roles with undeniable emotional impact.” It was also Ingrid Bergman’s last film role. As to the only collaboration of the two Bergmans, Gary Arnold of the Washington Post said, “Bergman’s casting coup lives up to expectations. In the 1970s he was working in color, and, as noted by Leonard Maltin, the cinematography by long-time Bergman collaborator Sven Nykvist is “peerless,” giving the film visual warmth and intensity. Bergman’s memorable movies of the 1950s and 1960s had been photographed in luminous black and white. When Eva also brings her handicapped sister, Helena (Lena Nyman) into the reunion, the past erupts on the present with repressed familial furor. In the drama of “fraught interpersonal relationships,” (a trademark of the director, as recently noted by Kenneth Turan), Ingrid Bergman’s character of Charlotte is invited by her daughter, Eva (Liv Ullmann) to visit her and her parson husband in their country home. For the occasion, Bergman enticed his namesake, legendary actress Ingrid Bergman, to return to her native language and star as a self-centered concert pianist who had favored her career over her children. Autumn Sonata represents the last theatrical film for Bergman, whose subsequent work was made for television, and then re-tailored for theatrical release. Bergman directs Bergman Laemmle’s Anniversary Classics Abroad presents AUTUMN SONATA Tuesday, May 15 Part of “Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema” Laemmle Theatres and the Anniversary Classics Abroad series presents the 40 th anniversary of Autumn Sonata (1978), as part of the centennial retrospective of the birth of Ingmar Bergman, the great Swedish auteur who has entered the cinematic pantheon.
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