Word: tormenting
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...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...
...reaches to a furious pitch. This is not to say that everyone is, or would be, bothered by these arpeggios of steam in the pipes. Clearly not. But for those, like me, who in the pursuit of silence are sensitive to the least disturbance they are a virtual torment, and become almost a personal affront. Try changing your seat and they will follow you. (It may be that some people will let it bother them.) However, this chronic condition which is so inconsistent with the nature of a library I think deserves some remedial attention. Grenville Thoron Stall...
WEST EUROPEAN STUDIES SEMINAR on post-war Scandinavian film presents Torment, written by Ingmar Bergman (his first film), directed by Alf Sjeberg. Thurs., WINTHROP HOUSE DINING HALL, 8 p.m., and Fri., LENMAN HALL...
There is not a great deal that Tuesday Weld can do with any of this. She is an actress of a curious and unique talent, especially adept at expressing elfin, vaguely threatening sexuality. Maria, obsessive and tormented, eludes her. Less introverted than preoccupied, Tuesday seems as lost as Maria herself, although the only good moment in the film is hers. "See the pyramids all wet with rain / Cross the ocean in a silver plane" Maria croons, stoned crazy in an old 16-mm. verité documentary of Carter's, and in those few seconds Weld touches some of Maria...
...continued to tell us of people who walk by him without interest and of some who even torment him. These are the beasts who can face human inquisitiveness only with indifference or hostility. The questioning of others interferes with their own beastliness...