It is like no other film he made before, but Cries and Whispers is one of Bergman’s great masterpieces, a tale of two sisters watching over a third while she dies of womb cancer, helped by a servant woman. It is a wrenching, horrifying examination on death, love, passion and tenderness. It’s a difficult film precisely because it gives no escape from its relentlessly tragic subject matter, but one achieves a sense of peace at its end.