Genre: Drama
Plot: After their divorce, Johan and Marianne lost touch for many, many years. Johan, now a retired professor, has withdrawn to his grandparents' summerhouse in the western province of Dalarna. He bought the house after inheriting a minor fortune from a Danish aunt, a once-famous opera singer. Here he leads a solitary life with his books and a housekeeper.Marianne, who has continued her practice as a family and divorce lawyer, suddenly decides to look up Johan and break through his isolation. Neither of them keeps up regular contact with their daughters, Sara, married and living in Australia, and Martha, who is ill and confined to a nursing home. One beautiful autumn day Marianne stands looking at Johan as he dozes in a lawn chair. She goes up and wakes him with a soft kiss, and after thirty-two years of separation they now begin several intense weeks together. Also present on the property is Henrik, Johan's son from an earlier marriage. Henrik is staying in the lake cottage with his daughter Karin. His beloved wife and Karin's mother Anna has been dead for two years, but her presence is still intensely palpable. Henrik has not managed to get over Anna's death. He took early retirement from his position at Uppsala University and is devoting himself now to writing a book
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 One could literally milk a thesaurus in trying to find the right words to lavish on "Saraband": brilliant, towering, majestic, challenging, remarkable, blah blah blah. But when "Saraband" runs its course, there is ultimately just one word to encapsulate Bergman's artistry and vision: WOW!  --Phil Hall (FilmThreat.com)
There are welcome flashes of sardonic humor and warmth throughout the film, but the prevailing tone is one of angst-ridden gloom. Still, Bergman's psychologically acute rendering of the characters gives Saraband both emotional and intellectual heft.  --TIM KNIGHT (Reel.com)
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Ingmar Bergman
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| Saraband, though not on par with Bergman’s great works, is an affective, touching, and ultimately highly affirming picture of familial turmoil and the curative, as well as destructive, powers of love. C+ --Daniel Kasman
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