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Saraband
Saraband
7.8
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1,524 Ratings

SARABAND

Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, Italy, 2003
Drama, TV Movie

Synopsis

Marianne, some thirty years after divorcing Johan, decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family power struggle between Johan’s musician son from another marriage, whom Johan dislikes, and his cellist granddaughter, whom Johan adores.

Synopsis

Marianne, some thirty years after divorcing Johan, decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family power struggle between Johan’s musician son from another marriage, whom Johan dislikes, and his cellist granddaughter, whom Johan adores.

Our take

For what would become his final film, Ingmar Bergman returns three decades later to Johan and Marianne—the central couple in 1973’s five-hour romantic drama Scenes from a Marriage—for this intense, powerful chamber piece. The parting gift of cinema’s modernist master, starring Liv Ullmann.