With all the reviews proclaiming this to be a masterpiece, I guess I must be the contrarian. I agree that the acting and dialogue are great. The distraught expressions of the daughter and mother reveal a haunted past that yearns for belated compassion. These scenes were tinged with realistic pathos and were hard to watch. However, the film's reliance on dialogue and a lack of skilled music, cinematography and mise-en-scene made it seem like a verbal medium than a visual one, i.e. A stage-play rather than a film.
Review of Autumn Sonata
