I was wondering whether to bin the vid this film was taped on. Glad i didn’t. It starts off slow but gets intense and intenser. And red. And then redder. The clocks tock. Two sisters – Maria and Karin – sit around watching and waiting for 3rd sister – Agnes – to die of cancer. [...]
This is possibly a very good film. But unfortunately i’ve just been watching the inferior dubbed version. Liv Ullmann has been deformed with a yickle baby-girl voice. (I think Ingrid Bergman might have over-dubbed hers) Dubbing displaces and disengages the watching experience. I don’t like it. Anyway, Liv is having a profound encounter with her [...]
That’s Liv Ullmann staring disbelievingly out from inside those big glasses. Her husband Erland Josephson is just telling her he wants to fuck off out of their 10 year old marriage to go shack up with some 23 year old bird. I don’t find Josephson that appealing as an actor anyway, and in this film [...]
