‘Cries and Whispers’ As Entertaining As a Lutheran Homily
Cries and Whispers Directed by Ingmar Bergman Sweden, 1972 The inanity of Bergman’s canonisation has always baffled me: I have tended to endure his films as a bitter medicine – worthwhile but unenjoyable, classics that everybody wants to have watched but nobody wants to watch. Subjecting myself to Cries and Whispers on the merit of …