Saraband (2003) TV Movie

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In this sequel to Bergman's 1973 film "Scenes from a Marriage," Marianne and Johan meet again after thirty years without contact, when Marianne suddenly feels a need to see her ex-husband again. She decides to visit Johan at his old summer house in the western province of Dalarna. And so, one beautiful autumn day, there she is, beside his reclining chair, waking him with a light kiss. (Sony Pictures Classics)

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Directed By: Ingmar Bergman

Written By: Ingmar Bergman

Starring: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Börje Ahlstedt, Gunnel Fred, Julia Dufvenius

Genre: Drama

Franchise: Scenes from a Marriage

Country: Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Sweden

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Saraband belongs to 36 collections

1. 21st Century Top 250 (collaborative: moderated by dardan - 49 stars)

2. They Shoot Pictures' Recommended Viewing (collaborative: moderated by Cinephile - 19 stars)

3. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2020 revision) (public: djross - 14 stars)

4. Sequel (collaborative: moderated by td888 - 9 stars)

5. The Best of the Decade: An Alternative View (collaborative - 9 stars)

6. Male Frontal Nudity (collaborative: moderated by bobyang - 7 stars)

7. Directors' final films (collaborative: moderated by iconogassed - 6 stars)

8. TSPDT 21st Century's Top 250 Most Acclaimed Films (2010) (collaborative: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 6 stars)

9. TSPDT 21st Century's Top 250 Most Acclaimed Films (2012) (collaborative: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 6 stars)

10. Films divided into chapters (collaborative: moderated by djross - 4 stars)

11. Belated sequel (collaborative: moderated by djross - 4 stars)

12. Djross great movies (public: djross - 4 stars)

13. Old directors (70+) (collaborative: moderated by von krogh - 3 stars)

14. Director at least 80 years old (collaborative: moderated by djross - 3 stars)

15. Criterion Collection (Blu-ray and 4K) (public: PepeCamello - 3 stars)

16. Djross film as art (public: djross - 3 stars)

17. Ageing (collaborative: moderated by djross - 2 stars)

18. TSPDT 21st Century's Top 250 Most Acclaimed Films (2011) (collaborative: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 2 stars)

19. Swedish Cinema (collaborative: moderated by Svengali - 2 stars)

20. Djross underrated movies (public: djross - 2 stars)

21. A Year of Essential Cinema (collaborative: moderated by Ibetolis1 - 1 star)

22. Duology (collaborative: moderated by Ag0stoMesmer - 1 star)

23. Kyles Movie of the Year 1892-2019 (public: Dorkovsky - 1 star)

24. LesInrocks - 100 meilleurs films de la décennie (public: Thegoodboy - 1 star)

25. Metacosmic and sexorganological cinema (public: djross - 1 star)

26. Cello / Cellist (collaborative: moderated by Ag0stoMesmer)

27. Best of the Year (public: MartinTeller)

28. Djross seen at the cinema (public: djross)

29. To see (public: pcalado)

30. Djross 2003 top ten (public: djross)

31. 2003: Year in Review (public: polanski28)

32. My DVD Collection (public: balseiros)

33. Movies I Own (public: Farzan)

34. Djross non-English-language feature film of the year (public: djross)

35. Movies I Have That I Haven't Watched Yet (public: TraverseTown)

36. Top 10 des Cahiers du Cinéma: 2004 (public: jagarnyfiken)

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Stars	User	Rating
3	tyr	95 _45th
"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
2	MartinTeller	87 _89th
To judge this as a sequel is to diminish it. It's a superb film in its own right, and except for a few small details it doesn't rely on the previous film at all. The cast is uniformly superb and some of the subtleties in the relationships become clearer on a second viewing. I also like how it's structured, a series of 10 dialogues, never more than 2 people in a scene. As the title implies, it's almost musical in its form... slightly artistic and slightly mathematical.
2	cambel	85 _87th
Bergman is still good and in shape.
2	djross	90 _97th
This is no easy, nostalgic or sentimental trip back to the world of Johan and Marianne, but a hard, painful and complex look at life and death by an artist who has lived and who is in mourning for the woman to whom he longs to return. A great, late and vastly underappreciated movie from the late, great and, these days, underappreciated Ingmar Bergman. A superb, surprising sequel to one of the great movies of all time, featuring the careful dialogue and controlled camera that are his hallmarks.
2	Spunkie	82 _96th
I've seen too many directors losing their vision and their work crumbling into most basic elements making me wonder if the originals were coincidental. Luckily Bergman is not one. Not only he continiued his major characters consistently(even though not the way I envisioned) and takes the story further with infants in the preceding movie. Last great piece before the journey ends.
2	Gnalkhere	70 _46th
Only Bergman can end his own career and still make something great. Sure, because of his declaration anything he made after Fanny & Alexander seemed like an afterthought, but with the right promotional material (a Criterion blu-ray) it bypasses that idea and then some.
1	Alex Watkins	3 _38th
Pretty damn good. Weird to consider it a "sequel," considering how little of the focus is on Johan and Marianne, but even with that in mind I had no problem being engaged by the central characters and their emotional distresses. As far as final films go you'd be hard pressed to find better ones.
1	twincinema	80 _75th
Y'know, I could have seen a new Bergman film in the theatres as a teenager and that feels weird. This is a sequel in the sense that it's a continuation of the two characters from Scenes from a Marriage, but the film goes past that, and features an array of characters trapped by the past. Not sure what was more shocking -- a father open-mouth kissing his daughter or seeing male full-frontal in a Bergman.
1	astrakhan	78 _57th
While I can appreciate how good the writing and performances are (and they really are top-notch), I wished Bergman would have done more in this work with the tools available to him as a film-maker. Maybe something a little more visual. A little less theatrical and staid. The sequence of static two-hander scenes feels a little bit like a sombre parade towards death. Not his finest, but a few remarkable moments within it nevertheless.
1	Bown	83 _67th
Bye, Bergman. Your last movie was really powerful, thanks for it.
1	benedetti	70 _58th
For critics every Bergman movie is sacred, but this one in my opinion is no match to previous ones.
1	bof	78 _77th
Bergman's last film is dedicated to his late wife, who posthumously gets to portray the dead wife of one of the characters. So yeah, not a comedy. Starts out as a straight sequel to SFAM, then gets hijacked by new characters into a family drama where everything may be too late to fix. Annoying TV soundstage cinematography and some odd pacing aside, Bergman goes out on... not quite a masterpiece, but a movie that very effectively says, "That's a wrap."
1	feublo	80 _57th
Bidding farewell in a way perhaps no other director will be able to. Still relevant without losing the organic matter that built these characters. Thank you Bergman.

Average Percentile 65.1% from 481 Ratings