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Article: A staged happening: an interview with Erland Josephson & Liv Ullmann.(Interview)
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- June 22, 2005
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Countless books and monographs have been written about Ingmar Bergman, but little about the relationship between Bergman, Erland Josephson, and Liv Ullmann. A movie could be made about the relationship between these three artists. Since it is one of the most complex and longest working relationships in film history--Josephson was there with Bergman at the very beginning and Ullmann is his alter ego--it is fitting that Bergman's swan song is Saraband (2003), a sequel to Scenes from a Marriage (1973), which portrays a reunion of the formerly married couple thirty years on. (Like the first film, it was produced for Swedish television.)
Over the course of his ...