Cries And Whispers (DVD)
This existential wail of a drama concerns two sisters, Karin (Ingrid Thulin) and Maria (Liv Ullmann), keeping vigil for a third, Agnes (Harriet Andersson), who is dying of cancer and can find solace only in the arms of a beatific servant (Kari Sylwan). An intensely felt film that is one of Bergman’s most striking formal experiments, Cries and Whispers (which won an Oscar for the extraordinary color photography by Sven Nykvist) is a powerful depiction of human behavior in the face of death, positioned on the borders between reality and nightmare, tranquility and terror.
DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration
- Introduction by director Ingmar Bergman from 2001
- New interview with actor Harriet Andersson, conducted by historian Peter Cowie
- On Solace, a new video essay by filmmaker :: kogonada
- Behind-the-scenes footage with commentary by Cowie
- Ingmar Bergman: Reflections on Life, Death, and Love with Erland Josephson (2000), a fifty-two-minute interview with Bergman and his longtime collaborator
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Emma Wilson
New cover by Sarah Habibi