CRIES AND WHISPERS

Release date

June 05, 2026

Genre

Drama

Language

VOSTA

Duration

Rating

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BLEAK WEEK x CINÉ-HISTOIRE | Cinéma du Musée.

The June 6 screening will be preceded by a brief presentation of the film, followed by a discussion led by a historian.

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. (Criterion)

Directed by

Ingmar Bergman

Actors

Liv Ullmann, Ingrid Thulin, Kari Sylwan, Harriet Andersson, Erland Josephson

Country

Sweden

Version

Original w/English subtitles

Release year

1972

Original title

Viskningar och rop

CRIES AND WHISPERS

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