Customer Ratings & Reviews

i'll have to admit that i've never seen scenes from a marriage so i wouldn't be qualified to compare the two films unfortunately. i think i was a bit too young to have seen any of bergman's other films in the theatres & had thought for many years that he retired after making fanny & alexander. to my surprise, he gave his latest masterpiece a couple of years ago & it's yet another jewel in his crown. bergman has always had an ear for excellent dialogue & saraband is no exception to the rule. what i found perhaps most fascinating other than the obvious two leads who are phenomenal was the performance of karin played by the young julia dufvenius. where on earth did ingmar find her? this, by far, is one of the most amazing performances i've ever seen? why didn't she receive the oscar is beyond me. oh well, foreign film fans everywhere can rejoice & only pray that ingmar will bless us again with more films before he retires from the film industry again.