Beautiful color palette, immediately recognizable as Bergman, raw and gut-wrenching.

Gorgeous dialogues. Loved it.

Good Movie

Bergman continues to impress. This reminded me of Cries & Whispers, both in terms of its themes of familial discord and its vibrant use of color. I think what really struck me, aside from the brilliant acting, is the script, which is strong even by Bergman's standards. The conversations between Charlotte & Eva are among the best he's ever written. I didn't care much for the fourth-wall breaking, but it works much better here than it did in The Passion of Anna, and everything else is golden.

Ingrid Bergman's performance here is the best she ever gave. To my eyes she simply was her character from her first frame on screen. That's no small thing, from one of the most iconic actresses of all time. One the whole, Ingmar Bergman just gets women. That much is clear. But he also shows that he gets the mother-daughter relationship. It's bare bones and brutal here, but he gets it. Oh yeah, and that's EXACTLY what it's like when you sit up all night talking with someone. He nailed it.

Pure intensity. Pure Bergman.

Very beautiful photography, with an extremely pretty colour scheme. Ullmann and Ingrid Bergman are both brilliant - Ullmann in particular becomes something more than I've ever seen her before, at one point seeming almost inhuman. Good stuff.

It took me ten minutes to cry. Ten minutes, that's it. Ullmann and Bergman were both absolutely perfect and their incredible chemistry is undeniable. I wasn't impressed with the direction Bergman went with the final ten minutes or so but as a whole it is such a beautiful film. Ulmann's performance will haunt me for a long time to come I can tell.

If you want to watch a movie about a strained relationship between a parent and child, Autumn Sonata is without peer.

I should probably just accept that i don't really care for Bergman that much and move on, because all of his movies are exactly the same and they never get better...

Probably this film includes the most powerful dialogues in the film history.

"Höstsonaten" is the quiet triumph of two Bergmans: Ingrid, whose sublime performance is a masterpiece of delivery and precision and Ingmar, whose structurally unadorned but emotionally complex script contrasts his direction that is characterized by sharp simplicity. The result is a tense, involving, relentlessly bleak and highly emotional masterwork that offers plenty of memorable dialogue, compelling characters and masterful acting to more than compensate for its being so utterly depressing.

Europeans are weird.

A gut-wrenching, emotionally draining, jaw-droppingly brilliant masterpiece. Just beautifully performed, with complex, emotionally ravaged relationships, explored masterfully by Bergman and the sensational cast. "Autumn Sonata" absolutely grabs you from the very first second, and doesn't let you go until its very last. Liv Ullman is all kinds of amazing, with the central exchanges between her and Ingrid Bergman truly incredible. My favourite Ingmar Bergman experience to date. Stunning.

Autumn Sonata is such an amazing picture. It really grasps you and holds on to you, and forces you to listen to every detail of characterization. The close up's on the faces really give off the vibe that certain character is feeling at the moment, in the most extraordinary way. When I heard that Autumn Sonata had Ingrid Bergman in it as well, I forced myself to get it, and her performance was nothing short of masterful, along with the rest of the cast in this film. Extremely thought provoking.

It's a good movie on the whole...but I didn't feel it entirely. For one, Eva seems a bit bitchy and I found her more than a little unsympathetic as a character, and there are some pacing issues as well, with the characters expending all of their energy in the last 20 minutes of the film. What makes it solid are the (as usual) excellent photography from Nykvist and excellent direction from Bergman, as well as the strong theme of maternal conflict and the overall strength of the material.

I didn't like this as much as some other Bergmans.