Cries and Whispers

Viskningar och rop (original)

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1h 35m 18+Drama Thriller

This existential wail of a drama concerns two sisters, Karin (Ingrid Thulin) and Maria (Liv Ullmann), keeping vigil for a third, Agnes (Harriet Andersson), who is dying of cancer and can find solace only in the arms of a beatific servant (Kari Sylwan). An intensely felt film that is one of Bergman’s most striking formal experiments, Cries and Whispers (which won an Oscar for the extraordinary color photography by Sven Nykvist) is a powerful depiction of human behavior in the face of death, positioned on the borders between reality and nightmare, tranquility and terror.

Spoken language: sv

Starring Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Kari Sylwan, Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Anders Ek, Henning Moritzen, Georg Årlin, Ingmar Bergman, Ingrid Sandell

Watch "Cries and Whispers" from streaming services HBO Max, Criterion Channel, Kanopy and several more released in 1972. It's a drama and thriller movie, and has a rating of 8 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.