Shame (1968)

Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann are former violinists living together on a farm, beginning to experience the effects of civil war moving towards their remote island. It’s a surreal, abstract look at war and what it does to people. There’s no obvious delineation between the two sides nor any commentary on any of the reasons they are fighting. Even still, there can be no bystanders; everyone is forced to choose a side. It pulls at whatever connecting threads that lie between two people until there is nothing left and everything is laid bare.