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Cries & Whispers - Criterion CollectionRating:
Release Date: 19 June, 2001 Retail Price: $29.95 OUR Price: $21.99 You SAVE: $7.96! Cast: Complete Cast (6 total) |
Cries & Whispers - Criterion Collection Reviews
of red and silence...
There's not much I can say about this film that hasn't already been said. But I will say that I like the following quote by Karin (the late Ingrid Thulin), a fascinating character, at the dinner table with Maria. It seems as if she has come to terms with her thoughts about suicide:
"It's true. I think...about suicide. I've often thought about it. It's disgusting. It's very degrading, and everlastingly the same."
I wonder if she connects that with her powerful self-mutilation scene - if she thinks it's just as degrading. That imagery is difficult to get out of your head. Wow.
And then I wonder about the attempted suicide of Maria's husband. I know that he failed, as he has probably failed at many other things. But I suppose everyone in this movie failed (at truly living) except Agnes and Anna.
A desolate, beautiful film.
Want to feel existential anguish, unresolved pain, and fear of death? Then
this is your film!
This is an absolutely incredible journey into the lives of an aristocratic Swedish family. The scene is brilliantly framed by the coming death of the eldest of three sisters, who has stayed on the family estate while the other two were married. Each carries her own pathology, which are portrayed in the memories of single instances, one in an affairand the other by the brutal denial of sex by self mutilation. They are engraved in the memory of the viewer as they were into me when I saw this over 30 years ago. (Amazingly, I did not feel that the film had aged in any way whatsoever, but was just as fresh and intense as the day I saw with an early sweetheart.)
While I disagree with certain reviewers here, who contend that the sisters exemplify the human condition - I saw them as creatures sick in their own ways - the basic fears that their situation evokes are archetypal: living with pain, forbidden desires, and the mysteries of existence and death. It is part of Bergman's genius that he succeeds in getting us to imagine these things so totally in the space of 2 hours.
Warmly recommended. Just make sure you are rady for a rough ride.
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