Mini-Review: "Saraband" is a difficult film. The two leads are lifted from Bergman's swedish television masterpiece, "Scenes from a Marriage," but beyond this simple detail film carries no real similarities to the former. The film begins and ends with Liv Ullmann speaking directly to the viewer. Each of the following sequences is shot as a series of duets--two characters engaging in a metaphorical dance. "Saraband" is intended as a stand alone film. It is emotionally disturbing and bleak. It seems to
Mini-Review: Everyone is alone.
Mini-Review: There is a sort of darkness in the spaces of everyday small town life. In the end there is little resolution found in the over-saturated colours and idyllic picketfenced lawns.
Mini-Review: Please don't watch this film if you haven't seen every episode of Twin Peaks. This film is not made for outsiders.
Mini-Review: An endless cycle. A dark highway.
Mini-Review: Under the guise of a mystery, a web of uncertainty. Reality and fantasy are intentionally blurred. This is simply an illusion.
Mini-Review: Beautiful and haunting. A slow piece of music.
Mini-Review: Darkness broods inside us all. Violent and disturbing, Kubrick's perfect masterpiece.
Mini-Review: Ultra violence
Mini-Review: A film of impossible layers. Stanley Kubrick's death left us with little clue to the final unraveling. It is not a film that was made to be understood upon a single viewing.