In the 1990s, Ullmann turned to directing, and has gone on to helm the feature films Sofie (1992), Kristin Lavransdatter (1995), Faithless (In Competition, Cannes Film Festival 2000), and Miss Julie (2014, starring Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell). She has received many international awards, including four Golden Globes, three National Society of Film Critics awards, three New York Film Critics Circle awards, and two Academy Award® nominations for Best Actress. Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann has been featured in eleven of Ingmar Bergman’s films, including Persona, Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage and Shame. This cathartic pas de deux, evocatively shot in burnished harvest colors, ranks among the director’s major dramatic works. Over the course of a day and a long, painful night that the two spend together after an extended separation, they finally confront the bitter discord of their relationship. The grande dame, playing an icy concert pianist, is matched beat for beat in ferocity by the fimmaker’s recurring lead Liv Ullmann, as her eldest daughter. Actress Liv Ullmann will join us for a discussion following the screening, moderated by WGBH Executive Arts Editor Jared Bowen.Īutumn Sonata was the only collaboration between cinema’s two great Bergmans: Ingmar and Ingrid, the monumental star of Casablanca.

Autumn sonata