Dining-Drinking
April, 1973
It seems almost an understatement to call Ingmar Bergman's Cries and Whispers a masterpiece, for he has made more than his share of superlative films, but none so pure and definitive as this. The soul-searching anguish Bergman poured into The Seventh Seal, The Silence, Winter Light and similar tormented dialogs between man and God is no longer the major issue. The wiser, mellower Bergman of Cries and Whispers appears to accept the absence of faith as inevitable; yet in its place he feels an achi...
