Waiting Women (1952)
(Kvinnors vantan)
Country: SV
Technical: bw 107m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Anita Björk, Eva Dahlbeck, Maj-Britt Nilsson, Gunnar Björnstrand
Synopsis:
Four wives await the return of their husbands one night at their country retreat, passing the time by telling stories from their love lives. Meanwhile, in the wings, a younger family member prepares to elope and experience for herself.
Review:
Like Three Strange Loves, though that one not penned by the director, this is another portmanteau film, which also appears to share locations with Summer Interlude. It is a fine example of Bergman's increasingly nuanced, and honest, anatomisation of relations between the sexes, as usual giving more than prominence to the distaff side of the equation. The actresses, particularly Björk and Nilsson, are sublime, as is Fischer's cinematography. The film is perhaps the frankest yet about sexual matters, an encounter in a lift between Björnstrand and Dahlbeck having an especially erotic charge, and Bergman films the inside of a Paris nightclub, complete with bare-breasted dancers, albeit shot against the light.
(Kvinnors vantan)
Country: SV
Technical: bw 107m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Anita Björk, Eva Dahlbeck, Maj-Britt Nilsson, Gunnar Björnstrand
Synopsis:
Four wives await the return of their husbands one night at their country retreat, passing the time by telling stories from their love lives. Meanwhile, in the wings, a younger family member prepares to elope and experience for herself.
Review:
Like Three Strange Loves, though that one not penned by the director, this is another portmanteau film, which also appears to share locations with Summer Interlude. It is a fine example of Bergman's increasingly nuanced, and honest, anatomisation of relations between the sexes, as usual giving more than prominence to the distaff side of the equation. The actresses, particularly Björk and Nilsson, are sublime, as is Fischer's cinematography. The film is perhaps the frankest yet about sexual matters, an encounter in a lift between Björnstrand and Dahlbeck having an especially erotic charge, and Bergman films the inside of a Paris nightclub, complete with bare-breasted dancers, albeit shot against the light.
(Kvinnors vantan)
Country: SV
Technical: bw 107m
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Anita Björk, Eva Dahlbeck, Maj-Britt Nilsson, Gunnar Björnstrand
Synopsis:
Four wives await the return of their husbands one night at their country retreat, passing the time by telling stories from their love lives. Meanwhile, in the wings, a younger family member prepares to elope and experience for herself.
Review:
Like Three Strange Loves, though that one not penned by the director, this is another portmanteau film, which also appears to share locations with Summer Interlude. It is a fine example of Bergman's increasingly nuanced, and honest, anatomisation of relations between the sexes, as usual giving more than prominence to the distaff side of the equation. The actresses, particularly Björk and Nilsson, are sublime, as is Fischer's cinematography. The film is perhaps the frankest yet about sexual matters, an encounter in a lift between Björnstrand and Dahlbeck having an especially erotic charge, and Bergman films the inside of a Paris nightclub, complete with bare-breasted dancers, albeit shot against the light.