shame represent a high point in the career of a master . ingmar bergman penetrating and existential study of a couple on the island of gotland deal with survive a long war . liv ullman and max von sydow give painfully detailed performance in this spare and stark drama . the films intensity rest in bergman keep our focus on the minute and intimate relation of his two character both accomplished musician trap in a landscape they have cease to understand . we see the way the external pressure of the war complicate and corrode their relationship . both character be force by the material circumstance of the war to betray their own sense of ethic . in one of the most powerful episode bergman force u to reflect on the manipulative power of the cinematic medium by show u a film interview with ullman character that have be re edit and distort for political effect by one side of the conflict and be use by the other side a evidence of war crime in a brutal interrogation scene .