Word: andersson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drunkard who has been picked up by the troupe dies in their carriage. Nothing in the film, however, is quite so enjoyable as the uninterrupted bucolic clowning during the seduction of the inexperienced, yet swaggering coachman by the luscious maid (delightfully done, as could be expected, by Bibi Andersson...
Simplicity is the greatest virtue of the plot: a young fashion model, Doris (Harriett Andersson) and her boss, Suzanne Brown (Eva Dahlbeck), journey from Stockholm to Gothenberg, the former to get away from her cloying fiance and the latter to try to renew a once torrid love affair with a married businessman, Mr. Lobelius (Ulf Palme). In another of his brilliant characterizations, Gunnar Bjornstand portrays the aging consul, who picks up Doris and plays Santa Baby with her for a day. He buys her a gown, a necklace, and a hot chocolate with whipped cream; he quietly retches...
...picture tells two stories at once, playing one against the other for satiric effect. Two women, a middle-aging fashion editor (Eva Dahlbeck) and her young photographers' model (Harriet Andersson), go to Gothenburg, a city in southwest Sweden, on a story assignment. First day in town, the editor puts through a call to a lover she has lost, a pleasant but bored businessman (Ulf Palmer), and persuades him to see, her again. Caught in a mood between renascence and relapse, they make love in her hotel room. Abruptly he decides to go away with her. A knock comes...
...cold-eyed man who portrays the intellectual icicles Bergman loves to dissolve; Eva Dahlbeck, a bright-eyed, matronly blonde who is far and away the finest comedienne in the troupe; Max von Sydow, a tall, gaunt, rugged actor who generally personifies Bergman's spiritual search and sufferings; Harriet Andersson, a full-lipped Eve, the much-nibbled apple of the Bergman hero's eye; Bibi Andersson, the company's cleverest and most appealing...