Autumn Sonata (1978)

I’d say this shows the deterioration of a relationship between mother and daughter, but it’s really a careful analysis of a relationship that never existed in the first place. Bergman’s careful study of the tortures and tribulations between mother and daughter is raw, unrelenting and so unbelievably pure.

Its two leads Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullman go through the wringer emotionally as all the pain comes seeping out in one of the most uncomfortable conversations ever seen in cinema. The harshness and brutality of these emotions was at times too much for me, but I felt hooked and absorbed with every line of its powerful dialogue that encapsulates all the human emotions Bergman is so obsessed by.

As it progresses and the pain only grows, it becomes even further apparent there will be no easy solution to the woes of these two wounded souls. Bergman is not interested in the resolution of the two, but rather haunted by the state of the human soul and how we simply need to express our feelings and let others understand the pain we’re experiencing because of them.

100/100