Word: thulin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...movies and twice as many plays, an accomplished classicist who prompts the purplest critics in the frozen north to write that she "fills every corner of the stage with feminine sovereignty, beauty, sex and nerves-a star shining by its own power without reflection from irrelevant suns." Ingrid Thulin (pronounced too-lean) was born into a comfortably landed family in the far north near Lapland...
...Ester, Ingrid Thulin seethes with the conflicts that kill, projecting a sad heroism that may well surpass the script's intentions. "I am known for my clear logic," she cries, but her body betrays her. During a hot, restless afternoon, she seeks escape from "horrible forces" in liquor, distracted reading, and autoeroticism...
...bomb," the pastor starts a confident trust-in-God homily that turns by stages into a pathetic malediction of the "echo God" who answers prayers with superficial comfort. The fisherman's consequent suicide leads the pastor to more destruction by words, cruel words to the village schoolteacher (Ingrid Thulin), whose life's meaning is her love for him. "I don't want you," he shouts. "I'm sick of your myopia, your fumbling hands, your weak stomach, your eczema, your periods-your candlesticks and tablecloths...
Producer Julian Blaustein has translated his tale from World War I to World War II, but too often he retains a dated atmosphere of glamour-by-gaslight. Hero Ford, a playboy from Argentina, falls pampassionately in love with Heroine Thulin, a Parisienne married to a patriotic editor. When the editor joins the Resistance, the hero realizes his duty and secretly does the same. Unaware of his decision, the heroine decides that he is merely a lightweight, and goes back to her husband. At the fade, while the violins soar among the bomb bursts, the poor misunderstood playboy dies heroically...