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...Gunnar Bjorstrand, who played the doctor's son in Wild Strawberries, is the film's main character, a gynecologist who has found that domestic life does not hold the attractions it used to. His wife, in her turn, has returned to a sculptor-lover of yesteryear, and things are generally going to hell--in a rather delightful sort...
Meanwhile, the model has been picked up on the street by an aging sugar daddy (Gunnar Bjornstrand) who buys her a bundle of expensive presents that she cannot collect unless she goes home with him. On the way home, the sprightly quarry leads the hard-breathing hunter a merry chase through an amusement park; and before he can catch up with her, old age catches up with him. He collapses after a roller-coaster ride, and at home he has to rest. But he soon feels strong enough to offer her a bottle of champagne. In an uproarious seduction scene...
...conceived it, the Outer Seven could be used as a bludgeon to force the Common Market nations to abandon their tariff discrimination against the rest of Europe. But last week, as the Outer Seven deposited the articles of ratification in Stockholm and became a formal reality. Swedish Commerce Minister Gunnar Lange glumly conceded that prospects of bringing about a wider association between the Outer Seven and the Inner Six "do not seem very bright...
...hero (Gunnar Björnstrand) is a Swedish gynecologist who, after 15 years of marriage, succumbs to a hazard of his occupation: the woman who wants personal as well as medical attention. "I need fire," he reassures his conscience, "to burn away the apathy" of middle age. But he is stunned when his wife (Eva Dahlbeck), who soon finds out about the affair, decides to strike a match of her own. She pops off to Copenhagen to resume a premarital relationship with a sculptor (Ake Gronberg). The doctor follows his wife to the rendezvous and heads her back...
Together, these players form a unit unique in the history of film: a cinema stock company trained by one director and dedicated to his purposes, beyond question the finest collection of cinemactors assembled under one roof. Among the principals: Gunnar Björnstrand, a skinny, thin-lipped, cold-eyed man who portrays the intellectual icicles Bergman loves to dissolve; Eva Dahlbeck, a bright-eyed, matronly blonde who is far and away the finest comedienne in the troupe; Max von Sydow, a tall, gaunt, rugged actor who generally personifies Bergman's spiritual search and sufferings; Harriet Andersson, a full-lipped...