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...Bergman's films, the story-the premise-is meticulously simple. Two women, Karin (Ingrid Thulin) and Maria (Liv Ullmann), care for their sister Agnes (Harriet Andersson), who is dying of some awful unspecified illness. As they attend her during her last days, they remember and relive old memories of childhood, of deep bitterness and irresolvable rivalries. They touch each other, torment each other. The only source of strength in this stately, silent household is the stolid maid Anna (Kari Sylwan), whose own daughter has died and who lavishes all her love and her tenderness on Agnes...
...D.D.R. athletes also tried hard to crack the Russian and Japanese monopoly on the gymnastic bars and swings. They initially garnered a silver medal, won by a lithe, pretty medical student named Karin Janz in the women's all-round individual competition. She subsequently won a pair of golds in the individual long-horse and uneven-bar competitions. The men's gymnastics events were a replay of the traditional Japanese-Russian conflict. Exquisitely musculatured for the sport, the Japanese men performed breathtaking airborne arabesques that showed considerably more imagination and verve than the strong but methodical Russians. Although the Japanese...
...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...
...else in this hokey genre-piece, the latter scene giving him the opportunity to proclaim with Bergmanic suggestiveness that "this drama has been going on for two years; how long can suffering be prolonged?" Something deep within us sighs--at last the director breaks through to his audience. Meanwhile, Karin has been heaving her veiny yet ample bosom at everyone in sight ("My ass is too big, and my legs are too short," she tells us, and they are), and Elliot Gould pouts and breaks furniture with the best of them. We had thought he wasn't a versatile actor...
...Paralysis. One day Kovac brings Karin to his excavation to show off his prize, a centuries-old madonna, which is being consumed from within by mysterious insects that had lain dormant for 500 years and revived only when the figure was brought up from underground. It is an obvious and not especially felicitous metaphor for Karin herself. When the lovers finally part and Karin desperately pursues David to London, she meets his sister, a cripple suffering from an unnamed muscular paralysis, which she claims to share with her brother. Karin reacts to this as if it were a kind...