Filming Locations: Gotland and Faro Island, Sweden
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Budget: NOK 6,950,000
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Rating: 8/10
Indian screenwriter, cinematographer and documentary director Dheeraj
Akolkar's debut full-length documentary feature which he wrote, is
based on excerpts from Liv Ullmann's autobiography "Changing" (1977),
her private letters to Ingmar Bergman, his letters to her and his
autobiography "The Magic Lantern" (1988). It premiered at the 40th
Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund in 2012 and is a
Norway-Sweden-UK-India-Czech Republic co-production which was shot on
location in Oslo, Norway and Fårö, Sweden and produced by Norwegian
film producer Rune T. Trondsen. It tells the story about the personal
and professional relationship between Norwegian screenwriter, director
and actress Liv Ullmann and Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman
(1918-2007), which began in 1965 during the production of one of Ingmar
Bergman's masterpieces "Persona" (1966), their first collaboration, on
the Baltic Sea Island of Fårö in Gotland, Sweden when Liv Ullmann was
in her mid-twenties and Ingmar Bergman in his late forties.
Finely and subtly directed by Indian filmmaker Dheeraj Akolkar, this
somewhat biographical remembrance which is narrated by Swedish actor
Samuel Fröler and by and from Liv Ullmann's point of view, draws an
intimate portrayal of the renowned romance between a distinctive
filmmaker from Sweden and an internationally acclaimed actress from
Norway. While notable for it's atmospheric cinematography by Norwegian
documentary director and cinematographer Hallvard Bræin and pictures of
Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman, this vivid portrait which examines the
love, loneliness, rage and friendship within a 42-year-long
relationship and twelve film collaborations contains a good score by
Swedish composer Stefan Nilsson.
This at times romantic and unsentimental flashback love-story which
appreciatively depicts a lifelong connection regarding two prominent
icons of cinema history whom has made an everlasting contribution to
cinema, is impelled and reinforced by it's fragmented narrative
structure, rhythmic pace and the fine editing by Indian film editor
Tushar Ghogale. A reverent and mindful homage to two human beings whose
stories one may never have known if it wasn't for their achievements
and the worldwide recognition they have received from filmmakers,
actors and actresses, authors, film critics and cinema audiences.
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