''Saraband'' was shown as part of last year's New York Film Festival. Following are excerpts from Stephen Holden's review, which appeared in The New York Times on Oct. 15, 2004; the full text is online at nytimes.com/movies. The film, in Swedish with English subtitles, opens today in Manhattan. Ingmar Bergman has said that ''Saraband,'' his bleak...

Ingmar Bergman has said that ''Saraband,'' his bleak made-for-television epilogue to ''Scenes From a Marriage,'' will be his final statement on film. For the great Swedish writer and director, final turns out to mean unbendingly severe. There has been no mellowing with age. As you watch his swan song, which stars Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson,...
Liv Johanne Ullmann, (født 16. december 1938) er en Oscar-nomineret norsk skuespillerinde.
Hun fik sit gennembrud i 1966 med filmen Persona, instrueret af Ingmar Bergman.