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1.66 Wide Screen
DVD 5
Swedish
Region 0
Dolby Digital Swedish
Dolby Digital
Star And Director Filmographies
Scene Selection
Original Theatrical Trailer
Philip Strick Film Notes
The Bergman Collection Trailer
English
DVD 5
Swedish
Region 0
Dolby Digital Swedish
Dolby Digital
Star And Director Filmographies
Scene Selection
Original Theatrical Trailer
Philip Strick Film Notes
The Bergman Collection Trailer
English
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: Swedish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.66:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Production Notes, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Ingrid Bergman, the Swedish expatriate who became one of Hollywood's greatest stars, and Ingmar Bergman, one of the world's most acclaimed filmmakers and Sweden's most honored director, worked together for the first and only time in this intensely personal drama about the troubled relationship between a mother and daughter. Charlotte (Ingrid Bergman) is an acclaimed concert pianist who is visiting her daughter Eva (Liv Ullmann), the wife of a parson in a rural community, for the first time in seven years. While Charlotte and Eva struggle to be civil, there is a deep emotional gulf between them. Eva resents her mother for not caring enough for her as a child, feeling that Charlotte was more interested in her career and her other daughter Helena (Lena Nyman), who is severely handicapped and can only communicate through inarticulate noises. Charlotte, on the other hand, is uncomfortable with the fact that Helena now lives with Eva, and she is still coming to terms with the emotional devastation of her husband's recent death. Herbstsonate, released in America as Autumn Sonata, earned Ingrid Bergman some of the most enthusiastic acclaim of her career; she received an Oscar nomination as Best Actress, and she won the same honor from the National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics Circle. It was also her last theatrical release; she would appear in only one more project, a TV movie about the life of Golda Meir, before her death in 1982 SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Ceasar Awards, David Donatello Awards, Golden Globes, Oscar Academy Awards, ...Autumn Sonata ( Höstsonaten )
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34 of 37 people found the following review helpful
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While some of Ingmar Bergman's actors consistently gave great performances over a number of films, the greatest one-off performance in a film of his is that of his namesake, Ingrid, in this, her last film before she died of cancer.
Well into her seventh decade, Ingrid Bergman's beauty as an aging concert pianist, Charlotte, is striking, especially in contrast with her daughter played by Liv Ullman. Ullman's astonishingly attractive looks (which dominate such classics as "Persona" "The Passion of Anna" "Cries and Whispers" and "Scenes from a Marriage") are convincingly masked by the dowdy attire, owlish glasses and prissy manner which give great credibility to her depiction of a priest's wife, unloved by and resentful of her mother.
Unique among Ingmar Bergman's films, the principal relationship under examination is that of mother and daughter. The closest film in this respect is "Cries and Whispers" but there the presence and unflattering characterisation of the mother is principally designed to informs the tortured relationship between the sisters Agnes, Maria and Karin as we see the similarities between Maria and her mother. Although "Autumn Sonata" touches on many of Bergman's favourite themes, the mother and daughter angle gives a freshness to the film and makes the quality of the acting all the more treasurable.
"Autumn Sonata" tends to be forgotten in comparison with Bergman's other late period works, both those made in exile from Sweden and those made before such as "Cries and Whispers" and the trimphant home-coming "Fanny and Alexander" both of which richly deserved Oscars.
Although "Autumn Sonata" is not as technically adventurous or as stunning visually as others, Ingrid Bergman deserved more than the Oscar nomination she received and the awards bestowed upon the film as a whole were richly deserved. Furthermore, the use of the Chopin prelude, in revealing Charlotte's personality is perhaps the most successful use of music in Bergman's directing history.
The extras are spare as one has come to expect from Tartan. Best is the original trailer which manages to capture the film's essence without being sensationalist or sentimental.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Widely regarded as one of Ingmar Bergmans most powerful films, Autumn Sonata tells the story of renowned pianist Charlotte (Ingrid Bergman), who is invited to visit her daughter Eva (Liv Ullmann), after not seeing her for a very long time. When she arrives, she is surprised to see that her other daughter, Helena (Lena Nyman), is no longer living at a mental institution and is now under the care of Eva.
During the night, Charlotte and Eva spill out their feelings towards one another. The later it becomes, the more emotional they become, letting out anger, that has long been bottled up. Charlotte, who chose her career over the duties of being a mother, is forced to reconsider her life choices and think of the damage she had caused, from her utter indifference to her family's needs.
Ingmar Bergman brilliantly conveys troubled and dysfunctional families, most probably due to his difficult upbringing by his abusive father. This film has similarities with Cries and Whispers, but is also completely different. In Cries and Whispers, you see the emotions of the characters individually, only sharing with one another (for a short amount of time), right near the end and they almost immediately draw back. In Autumn Sonata, the characters share almost all the way through the film. It portrays the emotions, so that we, the audience feel more engaged with the characters.
One of my personal favorites of (Ingmar) Bergman's films, both Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann are equally incredible as the selfish mother and the emotionally scarred daughter. The brilliant screenplay, beautiful cinematography and astounding acting, makes this a disturbing and thought provoking masterpiece.
Special Features: Star and Director Filmographies, The Bergman Collection Trailer, Philip Strick Film Notes.
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Feature Length: 90 mins
Language: Swedish, with a small amount of English
Subtitles: English
Certificate: 15
Region 0
During the night, Charlotte and Eva spill out their feelings towards one another. The later it becomes, the more emotional they become, letting out anger, that has long been bottled up. Charlotte, who chose her career over the duties of being a mother, is forced to reconsider her life choices and think of the damage she had caused, from her utter indifference to her family's needs.
Ingmar Bergman brilliantly conveys troubled and dysfunctional families, most probably due to his difficult upbringing by his abusive father. This film has similarities with Cries and Whispers, but is also completely different. In Cries and Whispers, you see the emotions of the characters individually, only sharing with one another (for a short amount of time), right near the end and they almost immediately draw back. In Autumn Sonata, the characters share almost all the way through the film. It portrays the emotions, so that we, the audience feel more engaged with the characters.
One of my personal favorites of (Ingmar) Bergman's films, both Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann are equally incredible as the selfish mother and the emotionally scarred daughter. The brilliant screenplay, beautiful cinematography and astounding acting, makes this a disturbing and thought provoking masterpiece.
Special Features: Star and Director Filmographies, The Bergman Collection Trailer, Philip Strick Film Notes.
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Feature Length: 90 mins
Language: Swedish, with a small amount of English
Subtitles: English
Certificate: 15
Region 0
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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Höstsonaten brought together two of the great Swedish legends of cinema - Ingmar Bergman and Ingrid Bergman (they're not related.) Ingmar would make only two more films before announcing his retirement as a film director, and it was Ingrid's very last feature. The film is an intense exploration of the dysfunctional relationship between a mother (played by Bergman) and daughter (Liv Ullmann). Scenes of apparent normality are juxtaposed with scenes of deep and traumatic revelation as the two women struggle with their love and their hate for each other and discuss the very different ways in which they see the past. This is classic Bergman: intense drama, fantastic writing and the outstanding performances he always manages to get from his actors.
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Bergman and Bergman work wonders
Autumn Sonata is the Bergman film I get the most out of, and I am always moved by the long nocturnal confrontation between mother and daughter that strikes me as the most memorable... Read more
Published 4 days ago by schumann_bg
Two spectacular performances
While I remembered this as an unalloyed masterpiece from seeing it in the theater on first release,
I had a few small problems re-seeing it 32 years later. Read more
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Published 6 days ago by K. Gordon
Ugh! Ugh! Speechless...
I'm not going to be eloquent here. Just watched this for the nth time and again it left me a quivering wreck on the sofa. Emotionally drained. Read more
Published on 21 Mar 2010 by Paul Semicolon
Exhausting!!!
Phew - what an experience! Watching this film felt like be being a relunctant spectator at a bull fight. Read more
Published on 8 May 2008 by Room For A View
Filmmaking at its best
Autumn Sonata is a great psychological study of a dysfunctional relationship between a self-absorbed mother and her two daughters, as well as the devastating damage inflicted by... Read more
Published on 12 Dec 2007 by Alojz Kajinic
More than a classic
Well, I adore Bergman. He knows how to work with colors. The movie is overwhelmed with tones of brown and yellow emphasizing the season. Read more
Published on 16 July 2003 by "tamerhirca"
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