Liv and Ingmar Movie Review: Touching Love Story Between Cinematic Legends

It's an immensely touching documentary on the romance, separation and subsequent friendship between the two cinematic legends. The archive footage has been tailored in beautifully as have the scenes from the several films in which they worked together.

Liv and Ingmar met in 1964, live together for five years, had a child and worked in 12 films together. Five decades on, following Ingmar's death, the love has still not died down. The documentary is predominantly interspersed with interviews of Liv Ullman. She speaks about her relationship with Ingmar over 4-5 major aspects. They are Love, Pain, Anger, and Friendship and so on. She speaks about the time that she spent with him at his famous house on an island in Sweden.

She speaks about the good times and the bad times leading to their eventual separation. She also talks about coping up with the separation and pursuing a career in Hollywood subsequently. How she bumps into Ingmar again and a friendship ensues!

The concept of the film is quite brilliant. With a balanced screenplay by Dheeraj Akolkar and fine editing by Tushar Ghogale, you don't realize until 83 minutes breeze past. The music by Stefan Nilsson is touching in parts and when required, escalated the tension in the film too. It's extremely courageous of Liv to come out and talk about a few uncomfortable aspects about her relationship. You could see her tear up when she was talking about the physical violence and the indifference shown to her by Ingmar during the latter phase of their 5-year-old romantic liaison. It's really gutsy of her to come out and present truth the way it is. The things that she says will strike a chord with almost anybody.

It's a sensitive, touching portrayal about a true love story. Relish it and take something back.