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Cries and Whispers

Viskningar och rop (Cries and Whispers)

1972

Ingmar Bergman

Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann ...

7.7

9,498

Drama Karin and Maria come to the aid of their dying sister, Agnes, but jealousy, manipulation, and selfishness come before empathy. Agnes, tortured by cancer, transcends the pettiness of her sisters' concerns reminiscing moments of her life.

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"A magnificent, moving and very misterious new film (...) Nothing that Bergman has done before is likely to prepare you for 'Cries and Whispers' (...) It stands alone and it reduces almost everything else you're likely to see this season to the size of a small cinder".	POS
United States	Rex Reed New York Daily News	"A haunting, chilling masterpiece! I predict it will have movie enthusiasts talking and debating for seasons to come."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Cries and Whispers' is like no movie I've seen before, and like no movie Ingmar Bergman has made before (...) It is hypnotic, disturbing, frightening (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Bergman is the acknowledged master of this sort of character study (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"There is something diabolically inspired in the aggressive way it confronts the audiences with its physicality (...) This film burns, like ice held to the skin (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Don Druker Chicago Reader	"More a rough draft for a Bergman movie than a finished product (...) [It] promises much and delivers little or nothing. Still, it's beautifully made and photographed"	NEU
United States	Variety	"Bergman’s lean style, his use of lingering close-ups, fades to red and a soundtrack echoing with the ticking of clocks, the rustle of dresses and the hushed cries of the lost gives pic a hypnotic impact."	POS
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"Its shocking eruptions of physical and emotional violence make it feel like an utterly contemporary work about a world in political and intimate turmoil."	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"Masterpiece (...) Like the greatest of artists, Bergman not only has the capacity to perceive the truth but a willingness to express it without compromise (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Andy Klein Los Angeles Times	"[It] is solidly in the existential/emotional angst mode of his best work."	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"None of the films immediately preceding have been more visually seductive than 'Cries'"	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"Dreamlike and surreal, this movie impacts directly upon the soul, not the mind. Images and the disquieting feelings they engender linger long after the movie's 90 minutes have elapsed (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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