According to trivia on this site, a saraband is a dance. The film also follows the shape of the dance. I know nothing about dance, sarabands in particular. Is there anyone that can enlighten me about the relation between the dance saraband andthe characters in the film.
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Don't know anythgin 'bout the dance, haven't seen the movie either tho.
But as a swede I can translate Saraband to you.
Sara = Sara (just simply the name Sara)
Band = Band (as a music band/group), lace, string, connection.
As you see band means alot of different things in swedish.
Tho I haven't seen the movie, I would guess it got somethign to do with connection saraband=saras connection, or connection to sara.
Hope I sorted some things out, othawise just enjoy the movie;)
I can read Swedish, but hadn't noticed the "connection to Sara" etymology found in "Saraband." And the translation makes sense since there is in the story a character Sara whom we never see but who is connected to the other characters (she's one of Marianne and Johan's daughters). Thanks for insight!
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"In music, the sarabande (It., sarabanda) is a slow dance in triple metre with the distinctive feature that beats 2 and 3 of the measure are often tied, giving a distinctive rhythm of quarter note and half note in alternation. The half notes are said to have corresponded with dragging steps in the dance."
So I guess it's a mixture of the two meanings.
A saraband was an erotic dance for two that was very popular at royal courts in the 17th and 18th centuries. But it was prohibited in Spain as being indecent.
i got this information from the offical saraband web page.
says a lot doesnt it?
ESPECIALLY when karin plays it for henrik upon his request just as she is about to leave for good.
i knew that the song had great significance so i had to look it up.
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A Saraband is not just a dance but also a piece of music (in the same sense as a waltz).
Some of the music we hear in the movie is from J.S Bach's cello suite nr. 5. This piece is, you guessed it, one of Bach's most famous Sarabands.
Bergman responded to this question in an interview that was published in "Sight and Sound" in 1992. The saraband is a dance for two people that tends to have an erotic component, and was, in fact, banned at one time in Spain. The film was structured so that there would only be two characters on screen at one time and most of the scenes have an erotic undercurrent that is sometimes suppressed and sometimes allowed to develop.
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