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Part of the reason is a studied even-handedness that smacks more of documentary than drama. Deborah (Kathleen Quinlan) is blessed with an extraordinarily sympathetic and skillful psychiatrist, Dr. Fried (Bibi Andersson), but the other psychiatrists are portrayed as stodgy and rigid. Most of the patients in the disturbed ward are worse off than Deborah (Sylvia Sidney, Signe Hasso and Susan Tyrrell, among others, have a high old time playing them), but one-who befriends Deborah-is better. One of the male nurses is brutal, but another is kind...
...more elegant circles he is found amply attractive. Among the dozens of desirables he has "escorted" have been Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson and Diahann Carroll. He seems unluckier in the bridal suite than in the board room, however. After a celebrated long-term engagement, Diahann turned around and married (briefly) a Las Vegas clothier. And then there was Karen Graham. A Texas-born model and Vogue cover girl, she received the unqualified blessing of David's Mum ("She's just like one of the family") and was about to get Frosted by Billy Graham in Manhattan. Two days before...
Roderick D. Andersson Seaford...
Celebrating at a dinner party with another ideal couple, their friends Katerina (Bibi Andersson) and Peter (Jan Malmsjo), Johan and Marianne have to face something rather unlovely. Beginning with taunting asides and barbed revelations (sexual and otherwise), Katerina and Peter erupt into one of those verbal cockfights designed to draw the other spouse's blood in front of mixed company. Johan and Marianne are embarrassed to silence, but what has really been stilled and wounded is their purring complacency in their own bliss...
Persona and Pierrot Le Fou are being cofeatured at the Brattle starting tomorrow; both are wonderful, though sometimes brutal, works, highly recommended for the artsy crowd. Persona, directed by Ingmar Bergman and staring Liv Ullmann and Bibi Andersson, is a complex psychological drama that's somewhat of a modern classic. Pierrot Le Fou, directed by Godard and starring Belmondo, is another heady film about psychic anguish, and as always, Belmondo is a joy to watch...