Round 2: Tossup 20

This film holds on a close-up of a woman looking into a mirror while a man states that her browlines are manifestations of her “indifference.” Repeated close-ups on each of this film’s protagonists illuminate half of their faces while voices murmur in the background. This film represents the tenderness between two women caressing each other’s faces via Bach’s sarabande from Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor. Roger Corman’s New World Pictures distributed this film, in which a flashback depicts a woman muttering, “it’s a web of lies, all of it” before mutilating her genitals with broken glass. A shot from this film depicting (*) Anna cradling a dead (-5[1])woman while baring one of her breasts, evoking the Pietà, was a hallmark of its Oscar-winning cinematography by Sven Nykvist. Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann starred in this film, which repeatedly fades to the color of a mansion’s wallpaper, (10[1])crimson. For 10 points, a maid helps two women care for their ill sister in what film by Ingmar Bergman? ■END■ (0[1])

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