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...SILENCE. In a bold drama that reflects his own uncertainties about religious faith, Sweden's film genius Ingmar Bergman has an innocent child witness the death of the soul in two tortured sisters, one a lesbian, one a nymphomaniac...
...SILENCE. Two sisters united in love-hate, one a lesbian, one a nymphomaniac, try to fill the emptiness of their souls with physical passion as they act out a tortured drama in which the only innocents are a child and an old man. Not Ingmar Bergman's best, but memorable...
INSIDE THE MOVIE KINGDOM (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). A look at today's top screen stars at work and at play, in a series of vignettes filmed on location. Among them: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Richard Burton, Paul Newman and Claudia Cardinale...
...trade. The cameras were soon recording an insider's view. Watching Swiss Director Bernhard Wicki at work in Rome on The Visit is like watching a big, half-mad sheep dog forever nipping at the flock, loping in circles, barking "Go home!" at people in his way. Ingrid Bergman is every inch an actress as she sits in a makeup chair and tells the man with the eye shadow how some magazine is obviously out to sink a knife into actresses one and all. Duke Wayne, in Spain with the Circus World, fluffs a line as if he were...
Perhaps more significant than the film's preoccupation with the problems of communication and concomitant alienation is the step it may mark in Bergman's intellectual development. For amidst all the silent anguish, there is no search for God, no solace in Bergman-style pseudo religion, as in Through a Glass Darkly and Winter Light. Instead, Bergman now seems to suggest that man must stand alone, without the crutch of a religious vocabulary. It is unfortunate that neither this encouraging thematic advance nor Bergman's filmic mastery can hush the grating content which disrupts The Silence...