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...Devil's Eye. Bergman just can't be thinking those incredibly heavy thoughts all the time, and in this film he just has a lot of fun. Bergman directs Satan to send Don Juan back to the mortal world on the not unpleasant mission of seducing Bibi Andersson, to the delight of earthly and subterranean audiences alike. Channel...
...Devil's Eye. (1960) Jarl Kulle as Don Juan visits earth to seduce Bibi Andersson in Ingmar Bergman's fantasy...
...film tells the actions of three sisters and a maid who wait through the autumn in a country mansion for one of the sisters to die. Agnes (Harriet Andersson) has cancer; her older sister Karin (Ingrid Thulin), the smartest and severest of the group, and her other sister, Maria (Liv Ullmann) an overripe coquette, have temporarily left their husbands--a diplomat and a businessman--to nurse her at their childhood home. The peasant girl, Anna (Kari Sylwa), is a servant who has been with the family for years and is devoted to Agnes...
...Bergman's films, the story-the premise-is meticulously simple. Two women, Karin (Ingrid Thulin) and Maria (Liv Ullmann), care for their sister Agnes (Harriet Andersson), who is dying of some awful unspecified illness. As they attend her during her last days, they remember and relive old memories of childhood, of deep bitterness and irresolvable rivalries. They touch each other, torment each other. The only source of strength in this stately, silent household is the stolid maid Anna (Kari Sylwan), whose own daughter has died and who lavishes all her love and her tenderness on Agnes...
...played a great stage actress who suffers an obscure spiritual crisis and decides never to speak again. Nor does she for the rest of the film, except for two words: "No, don't." The plot traced a duel of personality between the actress and her talkative nurse (Bibi Andersson), between the actress's corruption of soul and the nurse's innocence. Deprived of words, Liv spoke with a glance, a turn of the head, an enigmatic Gioconda smile. For much of the movie, Bergman simply trained his camera on her face-and that was enough. "Bergman taught...