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  • Actors: Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow, Erland Josephson, Erik Hell
  • Directors: Ingmar Bergman
  • Writers: Ingmar Bergman
  • Producers: Lars-Owe Carlberg
  • Format: Black & White, Colour, PAL
  • Language Swedish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: MGM Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 2 Aug 2004
  • Run Time: 96 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0002ADWRG
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 36,140 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Shot in striking, diffused colour by master cinematographer Sven Nykvist, THE PASSION OF ANNA is one of several Ingmar Bergman films of the 1960s dealing with a limited number of characters in an isolated setting--filming took place on the remote island of Faro, where Bergman was living at the time--whose emotional and psychological imbalances eventually lead to a crisis. Max von Sydow plays Andreas, a loner who (after an initial chance encounter) becomes acquainted with the crippled widow Anna (Liv Ullmann) through their mutual friends Eva and Elis Vergerus (played by Bibi Andersson and Erland Josephson), a troubled married couple. Andreas and Anna embark on a love affair but are soon confronted with disturbing revelations about each other's pasts. Their relationship suffers irreparable damage through mutual deception, insecurities, and violent outbreaks. Meanwhile, the atmosphere of malaise and menace surrounding the characters is heightened by the presence of an unknown perpetrator on the sparsely populated island who has been brutally torturing and killing farm animals. Bergman and Nykvist's technical mastery is evident throughout the film, especially in the closing shot, which has been referred to as one of the most extraordinary and innovative in modern cinema.

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5.0 out of 5 stars My Favourite Film, 12 Aug 2005
By Colin C "Colin C" (Glasgow) - See all my reviews
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This is quite possibly Ingmar Bergman's finest work, and it is also the best film I have seen. It is not to everyone's taste, admittedly, but if you are unfazed by psychological drama rather than action, and a pessimistic view of people and the world, then you should get this film and watch it without delay.

Without going into long winded details about The Passion of Anna, Bergman's first 'serious' film in colour, it is basically a close, intensive study of four people on a remote island and the way in which they (fail to) communicate. The film is remarkable above all for two things - the inclusion within the story of 4 interviews, one with each actor, in which they talk about their roles and what they think of their character, and secondly, the ending. I guarantee that you will never have seen a closing scene like it.

The only disappointment about this DVD release, which has a crisp remastered print of the film, is that it was released under the US title, when it should correctly be known as A Passion, which is the translation of the Swedish title. Other than that this is a release worthy of a fantastic film.

If you are yet to explore Bergman, who is probably seen as a little old-fashioned at the moment, then you have an array of his work on DVD to choose from. I would suggest that a good little core to start with would be: The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona, this film, and Fanny and Alexander. The last one is far better on Criterion's Region 1 release.

For those who do know IB's work fairly well, no Bergman collection is complete without this film.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A struggle against Life, 16 Sep 2009
By Nora Gluckmann (Roma,Italy.) - See all my reviews
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THE PASSION OF ANNA

This film is one of Ingmar Bergman's masterpieces of pessimism and anguish. Impressive and challenging , although extremely depressive and negative, it is always a great artist's work and deserves attention. Around 1960 Bergman changed the usual themes of his older films(wonderful ones as "The 7th seal", "Wild Strawberries", "A Winter Tale", etc.) from Metaphysics ,research of God,etc. to Human Psychology and specially to describe human isolation and alienation, After "Persona" (1966)comes a long period finished with "Fanny and Alexander". I am not sure whether there is a coincidence to his moving to live in Faro, that barren Baltic island, but this was the desolate landscape of part of this set of films, including "Passion", the original title.

The Passion of Anna (Liv Ullman ) is not a love or a sexual passion, but a certain Ideal centered in herself, of Purity and perfection and in her false ability (or only her wish) to dominate difficulties and contradictions of Life. She of course, ignores the quality and the amount of her neurosis who forces also herself to seclude in that Hell of non communication, solitude and consequent failure she (as well as all the other three main characters of the film ) unconsciously search, living in that symbolic isolated and extremely sad Island, with their very troubled minds and in their need of suffering .

Andreas (Max von Sydow)is also and extremely lonely person suffering with perhaps, a more severe neurosis. He is basically perhaps a sadist and a violent and not precisely the ideal for Anna. They choose to live together in a distressing, tormented, anxiety full play. Each one of them as the other couple, "next door neighbours", is alone and isolated. Sometimes there are unbearable silences, some times they talk, sob, cry, shout to the wind in the middle of the night to express themselves and to try to contact anyway, the other person. Andreas first gets drunk in front of a problem , in second place kills lots of sheeps -blood everywhere- due to a logical impossibility to make love to the other woman who is confessing and crying. He cuts tree branches for the fire with a fearful violence that makes you afraid of murder. But murder is not between Bergman' solutions. Failure of course is, and there they go, a real nightmare, physical violence included. (Wonderful photos of faces, perfect harmony in the development of the film. Beauty in spite of horror)

Last scenes are the peak. Inside the car, raining hard, "I want back my solitude!!" he shouts, "Everything you do or say is a lie" he offends her in her Passion (and struggle) for life. Desolate landscape with rain and naked branches. She runs away, he walks to the right, to the left, to the right and finishes on the ground, being nothing more than a spot, a speck.

Sorry to have told you the end. But maybe you enjoy the film as many people do; don't forget it is always an Ingmar Bergman production ,and therefore (he is one of the very best directors) I could NEVER have given one star for this film!
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