DVD of the Week: "Saraband"

For Ingmar Bergman, master of torment, the past is a source of untreatable pain and a cause for undying regret. That’s why the potentially nostalgic setup of his last feature, “Saraband,” from 2003 (which I discuss in this clip)—a reunion of the protagonists (named Marianne and Johan) and actors (Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson) from his 1973 film “Scenes from a Marriage”—rapidly dispels its sentimentality as it plunges the characters into a vortex of recriminations and a new roun...