Cinema and psychoanalysis presents Autumn sonata by Ingmar Bergman.

Continuing its collaboration with the National Cinema Museum, in its commitment for researching meanings that are useful for the social dimension of existence, the Turin Psychoanalysis Centre is proposing a commented viewing of the film Autumn sonata by Ingmar Bergman as a moment for reflection.

This showcase deals with exploring themes related to “borders”, which are not only geographical, political or humanitarian ones. In fact, psychoanalytical research also journeys along inner and relational “frontier zones” of the body-and-psyche unit and of the Self in relation to the Other. Thus arguing how much and how it may be possible to deal with certain forms of psychic suffering, of mental pain, but also with the existential challenge. The film will be introduced and commented by Anna Viacava. Admission 6.00/4.00 euro.

Ingmar Bergman

Höstsonaten (Autumn sonata)

(Sweden/France/Germany 1978, 99’, Hd, col., o.v. it.s/t)

In a village amongst the Norway fjords, Charlotte, a successful pianist, goes to pay a visit to her daughter Eva, who is married to a protestant pastor. The mother does not know she will also find her other daughter, Helena, who has been ill for some time, and whom she had bestowed in a clinic in the past. The dialogue between Eva and Charlotte will end up by dealing with a painful past of misunderstandings and failures, up to the moment in which the mother decides to leave without a real reconciliation.