Over the course of two or three days, an estranged mother and daughter reconnect and spill pent up emotions in this classic introspective drama from Ingmar Bergman. Bergman uses a similar strategy from “Cries and Whispers” and “Scenes from a Marriage”, isolating family members in private country residences, examining them with an intense series of long takes and extreme close-ups, where no emotion is uncharted, no blemish undervalued. As the mother, a distant concert pianist, constantly on the road and away from her family, Ingrid Bergman is commanding yet vulnerable, unaware of the psychological pain she has inflicted on her adult daughter (Liv Ullmann), but tentative to fully commit to a new relationship that might heal old wounds. For those familiar with Bergman’s work of this era, “Autumn Sonata” doesn’t bring anything radical to the table, but the lead actresses give a clinic in concentrated, sometimes repressed, often explosive dramatic acting, and Sven Nykvist’s browns and oranges lend a much needed autumnal glow to the dark, cathartic dramatics of Bergman’s mother-daughter psycho therapy.