Product: Saraband (2005)
Rating: 5.0
An intimate confessional!
Ingmar Bergman returns to his origins with this superb story, of visible theatrical tinge. Sarabande resumes all an febrile existence, dedicated to explore and visit the most recondite corners of the human soul, fears, anguishes and frizzled emotions, amalgamated by the time, the far distances and the weight of the memory.The initial sequence in which we are in front of a table covered by pictures with Liv Ulman starring us reminds us the cinema is a collection of photographs in movement; a frozen lapse of time and preserved for the eyes of the future. In this sense it begins with similar approach respect "Persona" or Tarkovky' s "The mirror."A collection of frozen images that nevertheless make to Marianne to undertake a journey of more than two hundred miles to visit to her husband Johan, after thirty years without exchange impressions of any sort.Since this visit we will aware about a serene gaze around their lives, past and present blend one each other; she is a lawyer and he is writing a book. They had two daughters; he knows nothing about them and she is aware about a distant and random contact with Sra who lives in Australia and Martha, who is serious sick, since has missed in the dark shadows of the forgetfulness and the diffused labyrinths of her memory.But their lives will turn around the talented niece of Johan, who plays the cello with her father as musical preceptor. Hindemith's Sonata for cello Op. 125 will become the entrance for her to open her heart in the verge of the desperation and the infinite loneliness she is immersed. And so, Marianne who always had kept so isolated from her daughters finds herself trapped in the web of her own memories. Johan and Marianne will make the last act of self redemption with this girl who lives sheltered by her father, an ambitious and resented human being incapable to stand up since her wife died of cancer.An intimate portrait admirably directed and magisterially narrated by this genius of the camera: Ingmar Bergman.