Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 07/08/2005(USA
Release Date: 01/10/2006
SubTitles: English/French/Por
Sound: DDS2.0
Run Time: 112 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
As the final masterwork of
Ingmar Bergman, the world's most revered cinematic craftsperson,
Saraband (2003) embodies the sequel to the director's 5-hour
Scenes from a Marriage, produced and directed 30 years after that original epic. Here,
Bergman revisits the two characters from that film, divorcees
Johan (
Erland Josephson) and
Marianne (
Liv Ullmann), after years of estrangement from one another.
Marianne now lives alone; of her two middle-aged daughters from the marriage to
Johan, one lives in Australia, while the other suffered a mental breakdown.
Marianne has contact with neither. After leafing through an assemblage of old photographs and waxing nostalgic,
Marianne decides to revisit the now-wealthy
Johan, who lives in the country with an adjoining cottage and two descendants: his 61-year-old widower son
Henrik (
Borje Ahlstedt of
I Am Curious - Yellow) and
Henrik's 19-year-old daughter,
Karin (
Julia Dufvenius). The relationships in
Johan's family are broken and deeply dysfunctional;
Johan resents
Henrik, whom he perceives as worthless in every capacity other than fatherhood;
Henrik resents
Johan for his niggardly attitudes about his wealth;
Karin feels bound by familial shackles and yearns to escape the confines of the life that ensnares her, ultimately hoping to move to the city and pursue her dream of becoming a cellist.
Bergman uses the central narrative to examine how parents can damage one another by wielding the demands of their own selfish egos and refusing to grant joy and contentment to themselves or their children.
~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
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