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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780021112
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780021118
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 18, 2000
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 37071
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 1978-10
Editorial Review:
Description:
A stunning union of two of Sweden's national treasures, Autumn Sonata pairs Ingmar Bergman with Ingrid Bergman for their only joint effort. Ingrid plays a mother who, after forsaking her family for a music career, attempts a reconciliation with her oldest daughter (Liv Ullmann) through a night of painful revelation. Sven Nykvist contributes glorious Eastmancolor cinematography to this quietly beautiful story of forgiveness. Criterion is proud to present Autumn Sonata in a gorgeous digital transfer.
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Bergman (Ingrid) meets Bergman (Ingmar) in this fine but not outstanding story from 1978 of a concert pianist who meets up with her estranged daughter (Liv Ullmann) for the first time in seven years, and spends an evening confronting unresolved ill feelings from the past. Ingmar's been down this road plenty of times and in better films (Cries and Whispers); but even as a minor work, this is a powerful piece with two top actresses of their day. This was Ingrid Bergman's last film. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  - Filmmaking at its best
Autumn Sonata is a great psychological study of a dysfunctional relationship between a self-absorbed mother and her two daughters, as well as the devastating damage inflicted by her negligent parenting.
Bergman makes a convincing case that achieving one's true happiness - that Aristotelian ideal of human perfection - is not to be achieved through focusing exclusively on one's own needs and wants.
The relationship between parents and their children can go very wrong, even ... Read More
Rating:  - Sonata played by Bergmans and Ullman
This excellent psychological study of a dysfunctional family centers on a conflict between the self-sacrificing daughter (Liv Ullmann) and her career-pursuing mother (Ingrid Bergman). On one night after many years, Ullmann finally gets a chance to articulate and express all the things unsaid in the years before. Compounding the darkness of the night is the presence of another daughter, suffering from a mental disease. Of course, the load of emotional outpouring on that single night is difficult to ... Read More
Rating: - Essential film genius: Bergman's 'Höstsonaten.'
The world lost one of its greatest film directors recently. In his "celluloid poems" (as Woody Allen calls them), film genius Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) examined the human condition in all of its bleakness, despair, humor, and hope, expanding our sense of what it means to be human. He favored intuition over intellect, and his films typically pondered the deepest concerns of humanity: mortality, loneliness, faith, and love (as in difficult, thwarted, repressed, and unexpressed love). Autumn Sonata ... Read More
Rating: - Bergman and Bergman Together
In this 1978 film Ingmar Bergman for the first and only time directs Ingrid Bergman in her last movie performance for which she received an Oscar nomination as the self-centered, selfish elegant concert pianist Charlotte who may be the image of poise and perfection in a piano recital but is an utter failure as a mother. This intense and somber film has to do with her daughter Eva's (Liv Ullman) attempts to have a relationship with her mother at last. It is obvious that there is a close connection between ... Read More
Rating: - Autumn Sonata
The first and only time the great Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman worked with master director Ingmar Bergman (no relation), was in this stormy drama. Ingrid reaches a career summit playing Charlotte, in her last big-screen appearance. Exquisitely photographed in autumnal tones by Ingmar's longtime collaborator Sven Nykvist, "Sonata" is a dramatic torrent of heated emotions and mournful revelations. Though talky, the film delivers a significant impact..
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