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Cries and Whispers

Four women dressed in white in a mansion painted red... haunted by whispers and cries.

1972 · 1h 35m · R Drama
Directed by Ingmar Bergman

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As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs.

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The much-vaunted color symbolism is so obvious as to be almost charming in its simplicity, and the gothic ambience never really resonates.

Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Fresh

Ingmar Bergman's dark vision of the human condition has focused on individuals incapable of real inter-personal communications except on the most primitive level.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

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, New York Times
Fresh

In order to understand why Cries and Whispers is a great film, it must be experienced, not merely watched.

James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Fresh

Bergman never made another film this painful. To see it is to touch the extremes of human feeling. It is so personal, so penetrating of privacy, we almost want to look away.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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