Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SILENCE. In a bold drama that reflects his own uncertainties about religious faith, Sweden's film genius Ingmar Bergman has an innocent child witness the death of the soul in two tortured sisters, one a lesbian, one a nymphomaniac...
...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...
...weather too is unsettling. Heat and humidity stifle most activity save bathing and eroticism. It soon became clear that Ester's masturbation (long enough in the American version) is a poor substitute for the Lesbian feelings she has for Anna. Anna is not free from reciprocal impulses, but her hate finally triumphs over love in a heterosexual affair with a strange waiter. She taunts her sister with stories about her lover and, in the film's climax, flings open the door behind which she knows Ester is hiding. Cruelly, Anna continues her bed play to torture her watching sister...
...Bernays no doubt intended her heroine Nicky Hapgod to emerge as a character comparable to Holden Caulfield. (In fact, the cover of the book shouts, "Shades of Salinger!") Holden, however, was neurotic enough to be a completely original creation. Nicky attends a boarding school where her roommate is a lesbian, desires to find true love, sleeps around, gets pawed by her college president, wants to be an actress although her conformist parents disaprove, jilts her socially-respectable fiance, runs away from home to find herself. She's just an average American girl...
...visible story is slow and simple. A lesbian named Ester, her younger sister Anna, and Anna's young son Johan are passing by train through a country whose inhabitants speak a foreign tongue, devised by Bergman to subvert communication. When Ester falls ill, they stop at a hotel. An incestuous relationship between the women has ended in bitterness, and Anna-after a few days of taunting her sister with a series of heterosexual escapades-takes the boy and goes away, leaving her to die alone...