Word: andersson
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Charo, Martha Raye, Alain Delon, Mercedes McCambridge and Jimmy ("J.J.") Walker were also along for the ride. At one point the audience gets to witness a sex scene between George Kennedy and Bibi Andersson...
Quintet's tedium is in no way relieved by Altman's film-making technique. In place of his usual brio, the director has used pretentious cinematic gimmicks, monochromatic sets and portentous, dissonant music. He reduces an all-star international cast-Newman, Fernando Rey, Bibi Andersson, Brigitte Fossey, David Langton, Vittorio Gassman-to interchangeable (and often indistinguishable) ciphers. He blurs the perimeters of his images with Vaseline. Though two writers assisted Altman on the screenplay, the witless lines amount to paint-by-number existentialism: "Every time you cheat death, you feel the pure thrill of life...
MARRIED. Bibi Andersson, 43, Swedish actress and longtime star of Ingmar Bergman films (The Seventh Seal); and Per Ahlmark, 39, chairman of the Swedish Film Institute and former head of his nation's Liberal Party; both for the second time; in Stockholm...
...Enquist's version the mistress be comes a beer-swigging lesbian, Marie Caroline David (Eileen Atkins), and the wife, Siri von Essen-Strindberg (Bibi Andersson), proclaims her love for her to Strindberg's horror, anger, jealousy and despair. The lines, mean and many, are sulfurous fumes straight from the marriage pit. In much of Enquist's play, Strindberg spews vitriolic putdowns at both women. These speeches are used to indicate the large feminine component in Strindberg's nature of which he was fully aware and which he wished to exorcise through a bludgeoning masculinity...
There is no insecurity in Max von Sydow. He gives a towering performance. In intensity, innate authority and mordant humor, this is acting in the thermodynamic range. Bibi Andersson is pallid by comparison, a picture-postcard beauty who recites her lines without the intent to lacerate-rather strange considering her snake-fanged delivery as a wife in Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage. Eileen Atkins is in Von Sydow's league. She encases herself in a palpable shield of silence and then hurls her lines like javelins dead on the mark...