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...chief one lies in the casting of Gigi. Hepburn brought an ethereal child-bride quality to all her roles, and that gave her Gigi a piquant flavor. Caron was a kind of wistful gamine, and that made her interpretation equally engaging in a different way. The current Gigi, Karin Wolfe, is a Barbie doll who has been programmed to sing, dance and fall in love with a chilling absence of presence Daniel Massey is also miscast as her suitor Gaston, a rich Parisian play-boy-about-town who discovers that little girl he used to pat on the head...
...series of lectures across the U.S., Uppsala University Professor Karin Westman Berg is challenging the popular view of young Swedes as symbols of sexual liberty, if not license. In studies of Swedish sexuality, she has found that most Uppsala students believe that a couple ought to know each other from five to seven months before having sex. Among Swedes, she says, 80% of the males and 90% of the females consider fidelity "absolutely essential" in marriage. Westman Berg acknowledges that marriage is under attack in her country and that a fifth of all Swedish babies are born to unmarried parents...
...entire film is based on the family's tissue of lies. Prior to Anna's dream, Karin and Maria attempt to make a sisterly connection. Maria instigates it; Karin denies, reading her hollow character with a sad and insightful malice. Both finally collapse into each other's arms; but after the funeral, when their husbands take them away, Maria gets back at Karin's initial contempt by reducing their stab at friendship to a "silly little thing." We are left to wonder what a mother they must have had, embodying all their impulses but resolving none, ignoring Karin and Agnes...
...world where simple faith has become impossible. Agnes is strangled by a faith which permits her no earthly satisfactions; Anna is supported by it, but Anna can exist only by serving others as a maternal breast; Maria's surface emotion hides her coldness and fear of true emotional commitment; Karin's analysis is harshly correct, but she lacks faith even in her own analysis and is therefore defeated by its truth. Each has failed to confront reality, which is composed not only of intellect, emotion and belief, but of transcendent faith which enunciates life's governing principle and thereby makes...
...family of Passion of Anna. Also to be expected are the wonderful Sven Nykvist photography, the clever color design (red for lust and guilt, white for innocence, black for death) and the impeccable performances. But Bergman's characteristic flaws are present as well. Occasionally, a scene becomes annoyingly stylized: Karin looks at that piece of glass for what seems like a full five minutes, and the talk in which she and Maria finally commit themselves is smothered by caresses and Chopin. The dialogue is sometimes brittle and ridiculously abstracted (Karin talks of suicide at the slightest provocation--this might just...