![]() Your soul, your your heart can come out if you want to show the camera the real truth. ULLMANN: If you’re really close to somebody you love, when you look at each other, you know everything about each other. All his seriousness, of course that wasn’t me.ĪP: You consider yourself at heart a theater actor, but what was your relationship to the camera? In the documentary, Blanchett says you were “looking up at the world sort of with a face of unconditional love.” There was so much I got to do because I wasn’t him, and maybe he would have loved to do. When I did “A Doll’s House,” he came to New York. The strange thing with all these actors who he loved dearly, he didn’t like them to go. I did a lot of things that he wanted to do that he didn’t do. ULLMANN: I don’t think I was a muse but you can say that. There is a reason he then used me continually until he died.ĪP: You’ve often been described as his “muse” but that doesn’t seem the right word for your collaboration. ![]() We were not alike each other but in certain ways we were. And I think I was him in many of the movies. ![]() I see the movie as about him having reached middle age and wanting to stop life and go into himself. It’s strange he did that with me because I was 25. Luckily, I didn’t have any lines in the movie. When he said he wanted me in one of his movies, I was shocked. He said, “Oh, well, I’d like you to be in one of my films.” And so maybe that’s why I also experienced everything (in film) more personally because it happened like that, Ingmar and me.ĪP: He was immediately struck by you in that meeting, but what was your first impression of him? He knew who I was because I had filmed a lot. We were walking on the street, and that’s where Ingmar came and spoke with her. ULLMANN: Bibi Andersson, who was my best friend and we had done some movies together, I visited her in Sweden. “A Road Less Travelled” streams on Viaplay beginning June 22nd.ĪP: How clearly do you remember meeting Bergman? ![]() Ullmann starred in 10 of Bergman’s films, including “Scenes From a Marriage” and “Saraband,” and she directed two of his screenplays. In an interview, the Norwegian actor, who lives in Boston, reflected on the passing of time and her halcyon decade with Bergman, one of cinema’s great collaborations. “That makes it so different and maybe a little shameful, somehow. “I’ve never been here when someone else has made a movie about me or my life,” says Ullmann. ![]() Dheeraj Akolkar’s documentary series, “Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled,” played in the Cannes Classics section. But after being here in just about every capacity - with “Cries and Whispers” in 1973, her own “Faithless” in 2000, president of the jury in 2001 - she was in Cannes for a different reason. She’s pretty sure there’s a hotel suite somewhere named after her. Ullmann has been coming to Cannes longer than she can remember. Todd Haynes endeavored to get word to her that his latest film, “May December,” is inspired by “Persona,” the 1966 film that began her decade with Ingmar Bergman.Īfter meeting Ullmann, “The Zone of Interest” director Jonathan Glazer pressed his hand against his chest to catch his breath. Pedro Almodóvar sought her out at a luncheon. CANNES, France (AP) - Very few are capable of capturing people’s attention at the Cannes Film Festival like Liv Ullmann.Īt 84, Ullmann is unabashed cinema royalty, and directors have flocked to greet her at this year’s festival. ![]()
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