Jacob tells her she must break off the relationship and tell everything to her husband. She has cheated on her husband, Henrik, with a younger man, Tomas. She confesses to him that she has been an unfaithful wife. Jacob led young Anna through her confirmation, and they meet again as the film opens in the summer of 1925. He replaced it with "private conversations'' in which sins and moral questions could be discussed with an adviser. It is often wrongly thought, he tells Anna, that Luther abolished the Catholic sacrament of confession.
The film is divided into five "conversations.'' An explanation is offered early, by Uncle Jacob. The actress playing Anna, his mother, is Pernilla August, who also played Anna in "The Best Intentions.'' Uncle Jacob, Anna's spiritual adviser, is Max von Sydow, the tall, spare presence in so many Bergman films from "The Seventh Seal'' onward. The cinematographer is wise old Sven Nykvist, his collaborator for 30 years. "Private Confessions,'' based on Bergman's 1966 book, has been directed by Liv Ullmann, an actress in many of his best films. One would not live to 81 and tell these stories only to falsify them. He calls these films fictions because he imagines things he could not have seen, but there is no doubt they are true to his feelings about his parents. Now comes "Private Confessions,'' the story of his mother's moral struggles. Those who will respond to the challenge will enjoy a quality film show about an episode of history that resonates in the present."Sunday's Children'' (1994), directed by Bergman's son Daniel, was about the boy's uneasy relationship with his father.
With its over three hours 'The Emigrants' has a format and duration that can be a test for today's viewers. The film has an exceptional distribution with Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann in the lead roles. The extremely thorough reconstruction of life in 19th-century Swedish villages contributes to the authenticity and credibility of what we see on screen. And again, we cannot help but compare what we see in the film with the psychology and motivations of many of today's migrants. The power and quality of the film also lies in the description of the psychology and motivation of those who leave their country and the places where they were born and lived forever to embark on an adventure that seems exceptional today. The road is littered with obstacles and not everyone who starts it reaches the promised shore. But precisely this naivety is one of the pillars of the American dream. Even the most educated of them owe their knowledge of reading propaganda books, written in order to encourage emigration, which contained many inaccuracies, intentional or not. There is, of course, a lot of naivety in the image that future immigrants have about the New World. From the point of view of American history it is a film about the Zero Moment of the American dream. It shows us a moment of crisis in the history of Sweden and Europe, one of those periods that produced the great human migrations to America in the 19th century. As a historical document 'The Emigrants' is a great film. The images of the columns of men and women in march on land or clustered in fragile boats sailing on dangerous seas look so familiar. The migrants putting their lives in danger to cross the high waters following the dreams of freedom and better lives for them and their children may speak different languages and their skins may have a different color today, but seeing this film today reminds that most of us or our ancestors have been once migrants. And yet, seen today, this film telling the story of a group of Swedes who emigrated from Europe to the United States because of economic hardships and religious persecutions has a strong resonance in the actuality of the second decade of the 21st century. The story takes place one hundred years earlier, sometime in the middle of 19th century.
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'The Emigrants' ('Utvandarna' in Swedish) directed by Jan Troell was released in 1971 and is based on a series of novels written by Vilhelm Moberg and published between 19.
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