Film Acting | Cries and Whispers (Part 2) by Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman is one of the greatest filmmakers who ever lived. He is notable for eliciting extremely complex and engaging performances from his actors, each of which approaches their character with virtuosic specificity. Within this series, Robert Castle discusses the work of Liv Ullmann, Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, and Kari Sylwan as they each navigate massive sensory universes, sometimes reaching emotional extremes that stay consistently organic and true. Though these Swedish actors and director did not come directly from the method, there is a strong adherence to the world of the senses for each one of them.

In this episode, Robert Castle digs further into the specificity of the sensory worlds of the four leads including their relationship to the space, how they touch one another, and how Bergman gives them constant sensory stimuli in which to live. Castle discusses how this can be achieved through sense memory in addition to the objects of attention that are physically on set.