The Silence

Sweden   d/ Ingmar Bergman

Two women and a boy are traveling in an unnamed country. Their relationship is undefined...sisters? lovers? For an hour unspoken angst fills the screen with tension. Then the dam bursts and out comes resentment, hate, long-repressed ugliness, suffering, aggressive promiscuity...perhaps death.

Along the way were a troupe of dwarfs, tanks, a mute concierge, tight intrusive close-ups. The film was like a parody of a Bergman film...nobody's idea of a swell time.

Historical value only.

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