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Three Sisters: Sibling Knots in Ingmar Bergman's Cries and Whispers
From: Psychoanalytic Inquiry
Date: 20070901
Author:Sabbadini, Andrea
THREE SISTERS, LIKE ON ANTON CHEKHOV' S STAGE AND WOODY ALLEN'S set, dominate the screen of Cries and Whispers (1972), one of Ingmar Bergman's masterpieces. Thanks to his extraordinary artistic sensitivity to the minutest details of his characters' complex psychologies, his film is a powerful exploration of one of those deep-rooted family knots where love is inextricably (con)fused witii cruelty, and neediness with anguish. The Swedish director's women-Agnes, Karin, and Maria-and the wonderful actors playing them-Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, and Liv Ullmann, respectively-are entrapped ...
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