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Written and directed by Sweden's Ingmar Bergman, the film closes the ring of the trilogy that began with Through a Glass Darkly and continued with Winter Light. In those films Bergman sought to illuminate the ills of men by poking through the ashes of religious faith. His concluding statement is a bold, unpredictable work, touched with genius, but at the same time murky, exasperating, and occasionally dull. Those expecting a magnum opus will be disappointed; so will those looking solely for sensation. For the blunt dialogue and the erotic scenes-shortened by 55 seconds for U.S. distribution-seem...
...visible story is slow and simple. A lesbian named Ester, her younger sister Anna, and Anna's young son Johan are passing by train through a country whose inhabitants speak a foreign tongue, devised by Bergman to subvert communication. When Ester falls ill, they stop at a hotel. An incestuous relationship between the women has ended in bitterness, and Anna-after a few days of taunting her sister with a series of heterosexual escapades-takes the boy and goes away, leaving her to die alone...
...Americans haven't been as nasty to any actress as they were to me. Elizabeth Taylor can get away with murder, but my pictures were taken off the market." Still, times have changed, admits Ingrid Bergman, 48, in the current Redbook, and so has she. The celebrated storm around her "love child" by Director Roberto Rossellini has died down, and the boy, Robertino, has grown into a strikingly handsome 13-year-old. In Rome to film The Lady's Vengeance, she spent a lot of time with him and her eleven-year-old twin daughters, Isabella and Ingrid...
Married. Lewis Bergman ("Bud") Maytag, 75, who inherited a big share of Iowa's washing-machine fortune, but leaves the business to his nephew Fred, devotes himself to golf promotions and his 13,000-acre Alabama quail-shooting preserve; and Elizabeth Walker Carey, 49, former receptionist to Colorado's Governor John A. Love; both for the second time; in Colorado Springs...
...TIME pointed out [Nov. 15], there has been a strong reaction in Sweden against the perversion and dirt of Ingmar Bergman's film The Silence...