Autumn Sonata

Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten, 1978) is an Ingmar Bergman drama you can watch online on iFILM. Concert pianist Charlotte visits her daughter Eva for the first time in seven years, and a single night of talk tears them both open.

Ingrid Bergman plays a mother who always chose the stage over her children. Liv Ullmann is the daughter who has been keeping score for decades. The polite reunion curdles into a reckoning: old grievances, guilt, and a tenderness that arrives far too late. There is also Helena, the younger sister with a crippling illness whom Charlotte once handed off to an institution. A Chopin prelude, played two different ways, becomes the quiet battleground between them.

This was the only film to pair the two Bergmans, the director and the legendary actress, and it served as Ingrid's farewell to cinema. It earned two Academy Award nominations and still ranks among the most unsparing portraits of motherhood ever filmed. Spare, chamber-sized, and meant for viewers who can sit with discomfort. Stream Autumn Sonata (1978) online on iFILM.