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...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...
...secret is in the fast pace and uniformly good acting - a rarity on TV - rather than the sometimes tired scripts. The Jewish mother is now a walking cliche, but Bibi Osterwald makes palatable even the thousandth serving of chicken soup. Audra Lindley is just as good as Bridget's mother, an Upper East Side Edith Bunker who sweetly tells her husband that Bridget could not have eloped since she had not yet picked out her silver pattern...
...plot is a simple one. David Konrad (simianly played by Elliot Gould), a sexually unbalanced German-American Jewish professor from London arrives in Sweden, finds Karin Bloch (Bibi Andersson) pining in a convalescent home coat closet and falls haplessly in love. To complete the obligatory triangle, the too-busy husband, Andreas (acted, Thank God! by Max von Sydow), makes an occasional phone call or brilliant goodbye on his way to and from the hospital. He is a surgeon, by the way, not an invalid; we see Elliot Gould sprawled in a graveyard, and the claim, at least, is that...
...more flash-in-the-pan for Bergman fans: everyone manages to notice the broken tricycle during Bibi Andersson's naked crying-jag in the stairwell scene; the camera lingers long enough to mark the symbolism. We have no definitive answers, but "Rosebud" ought to be enough to start the search for meaning...
...ensuing domestic crisis, The Touch is reminiscent of those sober and slightly dreary "women's dramas" that Bergman made back in the mid-'5'0s, films like A Lesson in Love or Brink of Life. The plot is narrowly, intensely focused on a housewife named Karin (Bibi Andersson), who is approaching middle age and who, after 15 years of marriage, yields to her first extramarital affair. Hers is a loving, even a model marriage, which her affair inevitably endangers. And her choice-of a lover implies strong tendencies toward an almost suicidal self-contempt...