It is easily one of the greatest film ever made. Yesterday I watched autumn Sonata and I am just blown away. I have already seen the seventh seal and persona. I have started watching Ingmar Bergmans filmography. The reveal is not as devastatingly raw as in the film, but Buckley convincingly finds her own truths. Autumn Sonata- tragic tale of mother and daughter. Helena is mentally disabled, and Eva has taken Helena out of the institution where their mother had placed her. To her surprise she finds her other daughter, Helena, there as well. It’s a simple scene, and Chopin is a passionate, but formally restrained and highly strung artist, just as Charlotte is. This disgust is no more manifest than in a scene where the mother and daughter play a Chopin Prelude. Buckley gives a wonderfully measured perf as a woman who lives in a well-ordered world, but whose mask slips when that world is undone amid recriminations and guilt. After having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her daughter Eva in her home. Ingmar Bergman’s almost fated 1978 filmic teaming with Ingrid Bergman, Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten). Because of Leonardo's passing, Charlotte's daughter, Eva, formerly a journalist, has invited her mother for an extended stay at the country home where she lives with her minister husband Viktor. In the film, Eva plays her rendition of the Chopin piece as her mother Charlotte, a renowned concert pianist, watches her from behind. Leonardo, the long time partner of Charlotte, a world renowned concert pianist, has just passed away. After an estrangement of seven years and following the death of her longtime lover, Charlotte receives an invitation from daughter Eva (Henderson) to visit her in the remote home where she lives with her pastor husband Viktor (Olek Krupa) and - to Charlotte’s surprise - her other daughter, the severely disabled and anguished Helena (Merritt Janson), whom Charlotte institutionalized.Ĭharlotte is charming, assured and self-centered, clearly more comfortable finding the emotional authenticity and complexity in a piece of music than in her own life. Ingrid Bergmanplays Charlotte, the mother of Eva (Liv Ullman) in Ingmar Bergmansstunning movie Autumn Sonata. It would be impossible to duplicate the casting coup, star wattage and personal histories of the film’s Ingrid Bergman (she nabbed an Oscar nom for the role) and Liv Ullmann, but Candy Buckley and Rebecca Henderson find their own respectable incarnations of these troubled characters: one in high denial, the other desperately longing for a sense of self.īuckley plays Charlotte, who abandoned her two daughters to pursue a career as a famed concert pianist. Autumn Sonata (1978, Bergman) a Mother And a Daughter - Part II (HD) - YouTube In this second part we see Eva dig deep into her own memory by evoking events from a past too painful to forget. With silences, spaces and music, Woodruff creates a powerfully theatrical meditation of the chasm between a daughter’s expectations and a mother’s limitations. A celebrated concert pianist named Charlotte, Ingrid Bergman, arrives for a brieg visit at the home of her daughter Eva, a country parsons wife, played by Ullmann.
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