Editing Cries and Whispers (section)

{{Short description|1972 Swedish drama film by Ingmar Bergman}}
{{About|the Swedish film|the album by Dominic Duval|Cries and Whispers (album)}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2017}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}}
{{good article}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Cries and Whispers
| image          = Criesandwhispers.jpg
| caption        = Swedish theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Ingmar Bergman]]
| producer       = Lars-Owe Carlberg
| writer         = Ingmar Bergman
| narrator       = 
| starring       = [[Harriet Andersson]]<br />[[Kari Sylwan]]<br />[[Ingrid Thulin]]<br />[[Liv Ullmann]]
| music          = [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]<br />[[Frédéric Chopin]]
| cinematography = [[Sven Nykvist]]
| editing        = Siv Lundgren
| studio         = [[AB Svensk Filmindustri|Svensk Filmindustri]]
| distributor =
| released       = {{Film date|df=y|1972|12|21|United States|1973|3|5|Sweden|ref2={{sfn|Steene|2005|p=299}}}}
| runtime        = 91 minutes{{sfn|Shargel|2007|p=xv}}
| country        = Sweden
| language       = Swedish
| budget         = $450,000{{sfn|Shargel|2007|p=133}}
| gross          = SEK 2,130,705 (Sweden)<br />$1.5 million (U.S.){{sfn|Corman|Jerome|1990|p=190}}<br />$3.5 million<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/americanfilmdist0000dona/page/294/mode/1up|title= American film distribution : the changing marketplace|last=Donahue|first= Suzanne Mary|year=1987 |publisher=UMI Research Press |page=294|isbn= 978-0-8357-1776-2}} Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada</ref>
}}
'''''Cries and Whispers''''' ({{langx|sv|'''Viskningar och rop'''|lit=Whispers and Cries}}) is a 1972 Swedish [[historical drama|period drama]] film written and directed by [[Ingmar Bergman]] and starring [[Harriet Andersson]], [[Kari Sylwan]], [[Ingrid Thulin]] and [[Liv Ullmann]]. The film, set in a mansion at the end of the 19th century, is about three sisters and a servant who struggle with the terminal cancer of one of the sisters (Andersson). The servant (Sylwan) is close to her, while the other two sisters (Ullmann and Thulin) confront their emotional distance from each other.

Inspired by Bergman's mother, Karin Åkerblom, and his vision of four women in a red room, ''Cries and Whispers'' was filmed at [[Taxinge-Näsby Castle]] in 1971. Its themes include faith, the [[Feminine psychology|female psyche]] and the search for meaning in suffering, and academics have found Biblical allusions. Unlike previous Bergman films, it uses saturated colour, [[crimson]] in particular.

After its premiere in the United States, distributed by [[Roger Corman]] and [[New World Pictures]], the film was released in Sweden and screened out of competition at the [[1973 Cannes Film Festival]]. Following two unsuccessful films by Bergman, ''Cries and Whispers'' was a critical and commercial success. It received five [[46th Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nominations, including one for [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]] (rare for a foreign-language film). Cinematographer [[Sven Nykvist]] won the [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography]], and ''Cries and Whispers'' won the [[Guldbagge Award for Best Film]] and other honours.

The film inspired stage adaptations by [[Ivo van Hove]] and [[Andrei Șerban]] and influenced later cinema. It was commemorated on [[Postage stamps and postal history of Sweden|Swedish postage stamps]] referring to a scene in which Andersson and Sylwan replicate the ''[[Pietà]]''.