Word: ingmar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SILENCE. Two sisters united in love-hate, one a lesbian, one a nymphomaniac, try to fill the emptiness of their souls with physical passion as they act out a tortured drama in which the only innocents are a child and an old man. Not Ingmar Bergman's best, but memorable...
...When Ingmar Bergman fails, he does it not with a flump but a crash--a crash because his mastery of film technique is so complete that his movies consistently reach the heights of visual excellence. And from such heights, one can achieve a searing success or a crashing failure...
...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...
...could cite are Willkie, Stevenson, Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson in U.S. politics; Eisenhower, Gruenther and Radford in the military sphere; Nasser, Nkrumah and Castro (whom we recognized as a Communist when he was still being widely hailed as a reforming liberal) among foreign leaders; Saarinen, De Kooning, Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Albert Finney and Shirley MacLaine in the arts...
...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...