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...SILENCE. The aberrations of two strange sisters dominate Ingmar Bergman's stark, savage but cold-blooded drama, in which both mind and body struggle to find meaning...
...SILENCE. The aberrations of two strange sisters dominate Ingmar Bergman's stark, savage, but cold-blooded drama in which both mind and body struggle to find meaning...
When Ingmar Bergman exports a film, he often exports Ingrid Thulin too. She was the somber daughter-in-law in Wild Strawberries, the agonized wife of The Magician, and the plain and neurotic schoolmistress in Winter Light. Now she is the deviate sister in Bergman's new film, The Silence...
...father is often called a fisherman in the press, but this, she explains, "only means that he fished all the time." Trained at the Royal Academy, she was nearly always cast as a sex merchant- before Bergman found her. "I always had to play femme fatale roles because I looked a little exotic for Sweden. I never looked like a Swedish woman. I had to play sophisticated ladies with low necks and yulery," she explains, fingering imaginary pearls. Bergman concealed her lavish charms. "It's fun to work with him," she says. "We get very involved emotionally for three...
...restless, questioning boy Johan (Jorgen Lindstrom), who begins his search on the train by pointing to an unintelligible sign and asking, "What does that mean?" No one can say. Later, as he wanders through an endless maze of hotel corridors, his quest and his confusion seem to be Bergman's own. Johan fleetingly finds comfort in make believe with a troupe of performing dwarfs, then with a kindly old waiter. But always, large-eyed and secretive, he observes the women...