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...uses the two main figures from the earlier film to explore new relationships: Johan's with his son Henrik (Börje Ahlstedt) and Henrik's with his teenage daughter Karin (Julia Dufvenius). All three have been handicapped by desolation over the death of Henrik's much-loved wife Anna. Henrik, a failed musician, has transferred his ambition to Karin, a promising cellist. When Anna was alive, Henrik was lost in love with Anna; and, Karin says, "I was a little shut out of that love." Now Karin is all he has. His ardor, as two startling moments indicate...
...mother, you wouldn't exist for me at all." But behind his contempt is the ache of envy. Johan, whom Marianne describes as "notoriously and compulsively unfaithful" and who never came within shouting distance of marital bliss, finds it "incomprehensible that Henrik was given the privilege of loving Anna and that she loved...
...films are so personal, and he has been so outspoken about writing his emotional autobiography on the screen, that such expeditions are inevitable. So know that Saraband is dedicated to Ingrid, Bergman?s fifth wife, who died in 1995; she likely inspired the film's much-mourned Anna. Bergman's relationships with his children, especially his sons, were often stormy. One child he did feel close to, as Johan does to Karin in the film, was Maria von Rosen, Ingrid's daughter by a previous marriage. Last year Bergman revealed that Maria was his own daughter, and published Three Diaries...
JOHNNY DEPP has said he based his look in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory--severe bob, outsize sunglasses--on Vogue editor Anna Wintour. But in Depp's Willie Wonka, isn't there more of an echo of another media figure, one with Wonka's penchant for catchy tunes and the company of small primates? How do the candy hawker and MICHAEL JACKSON stack...
...seat capacity. Quality is high too: this season, Bellini's bel canto I Capuleti e i Montecchi with Soprano Cecilia Gasdia and Mezzo Tatiana Troyanos was an unexpected smash hit, and the Lyric's tradition of presenting operatic superstars continued with Joan Sutherland in Donizetti's Anna Bolena...