The Silence (1963)
(Tystnaden)
Country: SV
Technical: bw 96m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom
Synopsis:
Two sisters and a small son seek refuge from war in a foreign hotel, where estranged from one another and unable to speak the language they sink into despair.
Review:
The silence of God finds its metaphor in the language barrier and the breakdown in communication between these very different female types: the intellectual reflective, needing sex, but above all tenderness, and unable to compromise; and the sensual unworthy mother, who seeks solace in casual encounters with men and lacks the insight with which to reason her dissatisfaction. Meanwhile the boy, shut out by the women's pain or indifference and yet needful of company, finds it with the ancient valet de chambre, who shows him funeral photographs and speaks with a disquieting smile. One of its director's bleakest films, almost making a stylistic virtue of its pessimism. It was incidentally a milestone in censorship, containing a discreet masturbation scene and a less discreet coupling in a cinema.
(Tystnaden)
Country: SV
Technical: bw 96m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom
Synopsis:
Two sisters and a small son seek refuge from war in a foreign hotel, where estranged from one another and unable to speak the language they sink into despair.
Review:
The silence of God finds its metaphor in the language barrier and the breakdown in communication between these very different female types: the intellectual reflective, needing sex, but above all tenderness, and unable to compromise; and the sensual unworthy mother, who seeks solace in casual encounters with men and lacks the insight with which to reason her dissatisfaction. Meanwhile the boy, shut out by the women's pain or indifference and yet needful of company, finds it with the ancient valet de chambre, who shows him funeral photographs and speaks with a disquieting smile. One of its director's bleakest films, almost making a stylistic virtue of its pessimism. It was incidentally a milestone in censorship, containing a discreet masturbation scene and a less discreet coupling in a cinema.
(Tystnaden)
Country: SV
Technical: bw 96m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom
Synopsis:
Two sisters and a small son seek refuge from war in a foreign hotel, where estranged from one another and unable to speak the language they sink into despair.
Review:
The silence of God finds its metaphor in the language barrier and the breakdown in communication between these very different female types: the intellectual reflective, needing sex, but above all tenderness, and unable to compromise; and the sensual unworthy mother, who seeks solace in casual encounters with men and lacks the insight with which to reason her dissatisfaction. Meanwhile the boy, shut out by the women's pain or indifference and yet needful of company, finds it with the ancient valet de chambre, who shows him funeral photographs and speaks with a disquieting smile. One of its director's bleakest films, almost making a stylistic virtue of its pessimism. It was incidentally a milestone in censorship, containing a discreet masturbation scene and a less discreet coupling in a cinema.