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Cries and Whispers

Cries and Whispers

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Key Information
Directors: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Ingrid Thulin
Actors: Harriet Andersson
Genre: Foreign Films
Subgenre: Illness · Friends · Tear Jerker · Essential Cinema · Swedish
MPAA Rating: R (MPAA)
Available Formats: VHS
UPC: 012569401631
Release Date: 1972
Running Time: 1hr 34min
Languages
Original Language: Swedish
DVD Editions
: Format: DVD: Criterion Collection, 1hr 31min
Release Company: Criterion Collection (June 19, 2001)
UPC: 037429156322
VHS Editions
: Format: VHS, 1hr 35min
Professional Reviews
: (10/01/1993, p.3D, Mike Clark): "...[A] morbidly beautiful drama..."
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Details: Ingmar Bergman's acclaimed drama, which deals with the fractured relationships between three sisters, is set in a vast turn-of-the-century manor house where unidentified voices are continually whispering and mingle with a dying woman's cries of pain. Karin and Maria (played by Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann, respectively) have come to stay with their sister Agnes (Harriet Andersson), who is suffering from cancer, during the final stretch of her illness. Attending to Agnes is her faithful maid Anna (Kari Sylwan), who, in spite of her apparent social inferiority, is the only one who remains steadfast and dauntless until the very end--the two other women, plagued by guilt, loneliness, and jealousy of one another, are unable to offer assistance or even sympathy in their sister's hour of need. Lauded often for its innovative stylistic elements (such as flashbacks introduced by a fade to red--a color that dominates the picture as a whole--and extreme, expressive close-ups of the actresses' faces), CRIES AND WHI...
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