Cries and Whispers

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This existential wail of a drama from Ingmar Bergman concerns two sisters, Karin and Maria, keeping vigil for a third, Agnes, who is dying of cancer and can find solace only in the arms of a beatific servant.

An intensely felt film that is one of Bergman's most striking formal experiments, CRIES AND WHISPERS is a powerful depiction of human behavior in the face of death, positioned on the borders between reality and nightmare, tranquillity and terror.

Academy Award winner for Best Cinematography and nominee for Best Picture. Nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film. Winner of a Technical Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

"It stands alone and it reduces almost everything else you're likely to see this season to the size of a small cinder." Vincent Canby, The New York Times