Ingmar Bergman’s enduring modernist masterpiece returns to cinemas in a beautiful new 4k remaster for its 60th Anniversary.
Famed stage stress Elisabeth Vogler (Liv Ullmann) suffers a moment of blankness during a performance and the next day lapses into total silence. Advised by her doctor to take time off to recover from what appears to be an emotional breakdown, Elisabeth goes to a beach house on the island of Fårö in the Baltic Sea with only Anna (Bibi Andersson), a nurse, as company. Over the next several weeks, as Anna struggles to reach her mute patient, the two women find themselves experiencing a strange emotional convergence. Bergman’s radical psychological masterpiece continues to push the limits of cinema even today. Extraordinary and tantalising, it fully deserves its classic status, and Bibi Andersson gives one of cinema’s greatest performances. (Subtitles)
Sweden 1966 Ingmar Bergman 85m
