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 (-5[1])caressing each other’s faces via Bach’s (15[1])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. (15[2])A shot (15[1])from this film depicting (*) Anna (-5[1])cradling a dead woman while baring one of her breasts, evoking the Pietà, was a hallmark of its Oscar-winning cinematography by Sven Nykvist. (-5[1])Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann starred in this film, which repeatedly (-5[3])fades to the color of a mansion’s wallpaper, crimson. (10[1])For 10 points, a maid helps two women care for their ill sister in what film by Ingmar Bergman? ■END■ (10[1]0[3])

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