![]() In that time, Eva has married a minister, Viktor (Halvar Björk) has had a son, Erik, who drowned before his fourth birthday and has been caring for her sister, Helena (Lena Nyman), who is dying, slowly and horribly, from a degenerative disease. Charlotte is a famed pianist whose glamorous life hasn’t included a visit to her daughter in seven years. He didn’t say why, nor did he need to.įilmed by Sven Nykvist in the haunting palette suggested by its title, Autumn Sonata uses Bergman’s signature technique of tightly focused close-ups in an almost claustrophobically small setting to tell the story of a daughter, Eva (Ullmann), who invites her mother, Charlotte (Ingrid Bergman), for a visit. The director later said that when he conceived Autumn Sonata, he considered no other actresses for the two main roles. As for Ullmann, just the year before she had written, “Success in one’s profession and trying to write a book do not compensate for domestic shortcomings as obvious as mine.” She was referring to her relationship with her daughter, Linn, whose father was Ingmar Bergman. But when Bergman left her husband for Roberto Rossellini, she went years without seeing her daughter from her first marriage. Both of the film’s stars, Liv Ullmann and Ingrid Bergman, had daughters as well as celebrated careers. We are all some mother’s daughter, whether we were cherished or abandoned, spoiled or abused. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 52% based on 27 reviews, with an average rating of 5.5/10.A utumn Sonata (1978) cuts deep into a woman, even if she recoils from it. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 41 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". The Sonata was released in Russia by Screen Media Films on November 15, 2018, and in the United States on January 10, 2020. Just as she plays the first notes, her eyes start glowing red, and the screen fades to black. In the closing scene of the film, Rose is back in England, performing the sonata to a full audience for the first time. Not having a choice, she complies and as she plays, a misty figure appears and flies around the room, eventually making its way to Charles, strangling him. One of the tapes eventually wakes Rose from her sleep and she discovers a mad and aggressive Charles, who demands that she play the sonata to him. Once she goes to bed, Charles begins deciphering the sonata using the torture tapes. As he is pouring tea, he slips some sleeping pills into Rose's cup. The two have a disagreement, but Charles seemingly backs down. Scared, Rose returns to the mansion and tells Charles about her discovery, saying that the sonata is a work of evil and must to be destroyed. Going there Rose discovers audiotapes of Richard torturing and murdering children, as it apparently helped him compose the sonata. Meanwhile, Rose begins to notice strange things happening around the mansion, and even sees an apparition of her dead father, who points her towards the old chapel nearby. He travels to the mansion under the pretext of comforting Rose. Despite the revelation, Charles becomes fascinated with the sonata, hoping to use it to bring fame to Rose, himself and his struggling business. Charles' investigation reveals that Richard may have been a member of a satanic cult that believed music was the key to summoning the Antichrist. She contacts Charles, and sends him a sample of the sheet music. Despite the estrangement, the news affects Rose and she decides to visit her late father's house, hoping to understand his reason for abandoning the family all those years ago, much to Charles' disapproval.Īt the mansion Rose discovers that her father had spent the last twenty-odd years working on a peculiar sonata for the violin. Now in her twenties, Rose receives news of her father's death, and that she inherited his mansion in France. ![]() Her father - the infamous composer Richard Marlowe - abandoned the family and became a recluse soon after Rose's birth. Her agent and manager Charles has been taking care of her since her mother's demise when Rose was just sixteen. Rose is a young and talented English violinist, a rising star in the world of classical music. It grossed $146,595 at the box office and received mixed reviews from critics. It was released in the United States on January 10, 2020, by Screen Media Films. This was Hauer's final released film during his lifetime before his death the following year. It stars Freya Tingley, Simon Abkarian, James Faulkner, Rutger Hauer, Matt Barber and James Kermack. The Sonata is a 2018 mystery thriller film, directed by Andrew Desmond, from a screenplay by Desmond and Arthur Morin.
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