Cries and Whispers

classified 15 S
Film

Please note: This was screened in April 2022

Director
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin
Details
92 mins, Subtitled, 1973, Sweden
Primary language
Swedish

Memories, dreams and the passage of time combine in Ingmar Bergman’s visually stunning masterwork, re-released for its 50th anniversary.

Sisters Maria (Liv Ullmann) and Karin (Ingrid Thulin) have returned to their family’s rural manor home to tend to their dying sibling Agnes (Harriet Andersson). Waiting for the inevitable, the sisters’ cold familiarity and lack of connection are thrown into sharp relief by the honest, abandoned love the family housemaid lavishes upon Agnes, and troubling memories and long-repressed feelings rise to the surface…


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