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...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...
...David Kovac (Elliott Gould) is an American archaeologist born in Germany and educated in Israel, who has learned a good deal about the past and almost nothing of his own psyche. He is alternately childish and brutal, contemptuous and suffocatingly possessive. He tells Karin shortly after their first meeting that he is in love with her. She is frightened but flattered. She visits him at his apartment, but that afternoon he is impotent. Later he has her for the first time by abusing and almost raping...
...Bergman continually emphasizes the changes in Karin and David through the developing parallels between them. She first meets him in a hospital, moments after the death of her mother; some time afterward the lovers spend an afternoon looking through a family photo album, and Kovac speaks rather too fondly of his own dead mother. Karin responds equally to the tenderness and humiliation he lavishes...
...landing (complete with last-minute baggage scramble) there is a series of typically flowing Balanchine duets for three couples, vaguely identified as young marrieds, two hippies and a brace of space-age jet-setters. By far the best is an earthy, bluesy number for Frank Ohman and German-born Karin von Aroldingen, a leggy, dramatically athletic beauty who is dressed (if that is the word) in a skimpy blue bikini and a see-through fringed-suede...
...Wunderlich began collaborating with Karin Székessy, a professional photographer of fashions and nudes. Surveying a mass of Karin's nude blowups, he found that there were usually one or two that fascinated him, and he began using them as a point of departure. The dramatic metamorphosis may often be traced from photograph to print to painting in such works as The Red Flower and Interior. A brunette model in an easy chair is likely to wind up as a tangle-haired Medusa, just as thoroughly transformed as the two lovelies waltzing through colored smoke rings...