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"Private Confessions"
1996
Directed by Liv Ullmann

With a screenplay by Ingmar Bergman, Private Confessions is the continuation of Best Intentions exploring Bergman's childhood memory of his parent's turbulent marriage.  Anna and Henrik are again played by Pernilla August and Samuel Froler.  Structured around five conversations shown out of chronological sequence, Private Confessions is about the isolation and loneliness felt by Anna, the wife of an unfeeling Lutheran minister.  The manner of her confessions and the conversations that continue to unfold revisit a major Bergman theme: the frustration and futility of a passionate soul unable to escape, or even reconcile, the strict moral framework in which it lives. Swedish with English subtitles.  127 minutes.