Word: bibi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mental hospital in which Debby learns to deal with her schizophrenia is more believable. Like Green, Page manages to balance the harsh methods used to control the inmates--a sadistic orderly, and prolonged wrapping in cold sheets to quiet hysteria--with the compassion shown by Debby's psychiatrist (Bibi Andersson) and the kindness shown by nurses and Debby's intimate friends. Yet this rather sympathetic portrayal could lead one to think that the insane are cured by kind words and firm control. Once again, Page's superficial treatment destroys the story: Debby's psychoanalysis seems suspiciously easy as the psychiatrist...
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...
Quinlan, 22, mirrors Deborah's inner turmoil in a strong and sensitive performance. The splendid Bibi Andersson does as much as possible with the passive role of Dr. Fried, but the film makers' conception of the role is a letdown. There are some absorbing early glimpses of Dr. Fried's sessions with Deborah, but one suspects that several later scenes were cut, as if the film decided to shy away from the struggle of minds. We see Deborah's emotional breakthrough, but the question of precisely how Dr. Fried helped bring it about is fudged...
...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...
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...