The Silence Movie Review 1963

A brutal, enigmatic allegory about two sisters, one a nymphomaniac, the other a violently frustrated lesbian, traveling with the former's young son to an unnamed country beset by war. Fascinating and memorable but frustrating and unsatisfying: What is it about? What is it an allegory of? Where is the narrative? The third in Bergman's crisis-of-faith trilogy following "Through a Glass Darkly" and "Winter Light." In Swedish with English subtitles or dubbed.

Distribution

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Available on VHS, VHS
Running time 95 minutes.
Originally from Swedish.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Brothers & Sisters, Lesbians

Screenplay

Ingmar Bergman

Cast

Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindstrom, Birger Malmsten

Cinematography

Sven Nykvist

Director

Ingmar Bergman