Autumn Sonata

Director: Ingmar Bergman

1978 / 93min / DCP

Ingmar and Ingrid, Bergman and Bergman, together at last. Sweden’s most popular export before the Volvo, in her final screen role, plays a world-renowned concert pianist who returns home to reunite with her now-married daughter (Liv Ullmann), long a distant second to her mother’s career ambitions, the two women exhuming old resentments and struggling towards reconciliation over the course of an emotionally draining 24 hours. “So unrelenting, so harrowing, that I walked out of the theater on shaking legs. If you’re open to the experience that Bergman means to provide, you may leave the film muttering a wrung-out ‘Whew!’ followed quickly by an appreciative ‘Wow!’” —Richard Corliss, Time Magazine

Distributor: Janus Films

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