Autumn Sonata
A famous concert pianist visits the grown daughter she long neglected, and a single overnight reckoning brings decades of hurt and blame into the open.
Academy Awards, Best Actress and Original Screenplay nominations, 1979
A celebrated pianist visits her daughter after years of distance, and one long night turns into a reckoning. The daughter, who has quietly nursed her wounds, finally confronts the mother about a childhood of absence and coldness, and the mother defends a life given to her art.
The film anatomises maternal ambivalence, guilt, and the way injury passes from one generation to the next, holding both women's cases without letting either off. It gives a therapist an unusually direct look at how a parent and child stage an old grievance. It received Academy Award nominations for Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay in 1979.
Details
- 1978
- Sweden
- Swedish
- Film