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starring: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten, Håkan Jahnberg, Jörgen Lindströmdirected by: Ingmar Bergman
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302783346
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6302783348
Label: Homevision
Manufacturer: Homevision
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Homevision
Release Date: June 16, 2000
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 22151
Studio: Homevision
Theatrical Release Date: February 03, 1964
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Description:
The Silence, the third film of Bergman's religious trilogy (Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light), depicts a world in which God is silent, a world of despair. United since childhood in a love-hate relationship of lesbian incest, two sisters struggle and part as the younger seeks her freedom in a heterosexual affair. Bergman expresses their conflict in visual terms, with little dialogue, as he probes deeply into loneliness, love, and sexual obsession. His somber view of modern man's condition, wherein human relations are grotesquely egocentric and perversely sexual, is shattering.
Amazon.com:
Between 1961 and 1963, Ingmar Bergman released a remarkable trilogy of so-called chamber dramas, each one concerned with the futility of sustaining faith in God, family, love, or much else. The series proved transitional for the internationally renowned Swedish filmmaker, securing his crucial collaboration with cinematographer Sven Nykvist (with whom Bergman would go on to make his many masterpieces--including Persona and Cries and Whispers--of the '60s, '70s, and early '80s), and underscoring a new preference for intimate, relationship-driven stories, austere settings, and haunting tones of emotional isolation and despair.
Following Through a Glass Darkly and Winter Light, The Silence is the most abstract entry in the trilogy, a somewhat eerie story of two sisters, Esther (Ingrid Thulin) and Anna (Gunnel Lindblom), and the latter's son (Jörgen Lindström), all traveling by train to Sweden but forced to stay in a foreign country when Esther's chronic bronchial problems require her to rest. A stifling atmosphere, a desolate hotel, encounters with a troupe of carnival dwarves, Anna's anchoring illness, and an empty sexual encounter for Esther underscore the unnerving feeling that God has abandoned these characters to dubious salvation in their own connection. A highly memorable film. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - The Cries and Whispers of Silence
The title of a dark and erotic final chapter of "faith" trilogy may sum up Bergman's own philosophy regarding religion and God - "God has never spoken because He does not exist". Bergman mentioned that he wanted to make a film with as little dialog as possible because "he had made many films with a lot of talking". He wanted "The Silence" to be a pure cinematographic experience where the images do all the talking. The films centers on two sisters, Ester (Ingrid Thulin) and Anna, (Gunnel Lindblom) ... Read More
Rating: - The last opus of the Trylogy!
This is a hard film which plays with your inner feelings without a drop of merciless. Two sisters stop in a hotel and will exchange her different opinions and points of view. One of them is frustrated lesbian without anything to give and furthermore nothing to share. The other one is the free loving mother of a 10 years old child. In this claustrophobic stage and micro cosmos Bergman will interweave a painful and harsh portrait in a hallucinating and valiant drama where the loneliness, the ... Read More
Rating:  - enigmatic
I'm an Ingmar Bergman neophyte and have seen about ten of his films to date, and I think this one haunted me the most. It couldn't leave my mind for a few days. It's crammed with hopelessness and emptiness, and to put it bluntly, is quite depressing. I was able to put up with Persona, Cries and Whispers, The Seventh Seal, and a few others with a fierce motivation to assess and analyze, but this one left me quite deflated. I think it was because of the way the little boy was used; he is left to roam ... Read More
Rating: - another bergman classic
Easily the finest Bergman film I�ve ever seen. I like these �chamber� movies because of the strange, paranoid claustrophobia of it and appreciate the film more in this way than as a religious insight or whatever, even though it�s the end of his whole trilogy of faith thing. I found it more likeable as an evocation of early Polanski films and the little Georges Bataille I�ve read which also often create a vaguely impending, ominous setting. The film is about two sisters who been have obviously ... Read More
Rating: - Still Timely
Watching this movie, I am reminded of the old Biblical story of the prophet who sought the word of God in many places but found it in the great silence. This unsentimental movie tells the tale of two sisters on their return from a vacation, one of whom suffers gravely from lung disease perhaps cancer, the other is accompanied by her little boy. While many questions lie realistically hidden in the shadows of silence--most importantly the understandable pain of the two sisters--nevertheless there is unexpected ... Read More
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