CRIES AND WHISPERS (on CINE-FILE Chicago)

This week over at CINE-FILE, I wrote about Ingmar Bergman's CRIES AND WHISPERS. It will always be with me, the image of the women in their white dresses in the red drawing rooms. 

 

It cannot be coincidence that, in his memoir The Magic Lantern, Bergman chooses the discussion of CRIES AND WHISPERS to say this: "Sometimes I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films. This is natural and it passes. Most of all I miss working with Sven Nykvist, perhaps because we are both utterly captivated by the problems of light, the gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, living, dead, clear, misty, hot, violent, bare, sudden, dark, springlike, falling, straight, slanting, sensual, subdued, limited, poisonous, calming, pale, light. Light."

 

It's playing at the Gene Siskel Film Center this week. Check out my review by heading to CINE-FILE Chicago and scrolling down, down to "Also Recommended."