Autumn Sonata

Autumn Sonata Swedish Hstsonaten , German Herbstsonate is a 1978 Swedish drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann and Lena Nyman. The movie tells the story of a celebrated classical pianist who is confronted by her neglected daughter. It was Ingrid Bergmans last performance in a major theatrical feature film. Autumn Sonata was Ingmars last film made for the cinema all his films from this point, even those which received theatrical release, were television productions.

The presence of her younger paralyzed daughter in Evas house is shocking to the aging mother. She makes a gift of her own wrist watch to her younger paralyzed daughter, and listens to Eva playing Prelude No.in A minor by Chopin. She immediately reperforms the same prelude after Eva finishes in her own preferred interpretation of the music. Before going to bed, Charlotte decides to make a gift of her own car to her daughter. She plans to take a flight home, and buy a new car for herself, as a measure of her altruism. At night, Charlotte wakes up from a nightmare it seems that Eva is choking her. She gets up, goes into the living room and sees Eva there also awake and not sleeping.Mother and daughter begin an impassioned rediscovery and clarification of their past relationship. Evas husband overhears this unexpectedly heightened exchange, but wisely decides not to participate and interfere. Hearing this impassioned exchange, her disabled younger sister painfully forces herself out of her bed and starts crawling up to the stairs to where Eva and Charlotte are arguing. Upon reaching the landing she starts shouting, Mama, come ........

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