Bergman's bizarre, unsettling, stuffy "The Silence" is a gut-wrenching drama about unability to communicate and envy with sense of isolation as strong as one can only find in Antonioni's "Eclipse".
While in Bergman's catalog presented world is usually very much alike in its mood...( read more)
Birger Malmsten, Gunnel Lindblom, Hakan Jahnberg
A woman feels an attraction to her younger sister, the mother of a ten year-old boy. The older woman begins to self-destruct as she watches the younger one engage in casual affairs with men.
DVD Release Date: August 19, 2003
Stats: 276 reviews
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March 4, 2009
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January 8, 2009
in a world entrenched in hopelessness, spiritual bankruptcy, and impending doom Ingmar Bergman tells his disturbing tale of moral depravity, familial resentment, and ultimately indignation. wonderfully shot with very little dialogue and some great performances all around. the bes...( read more)
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October 25, 2008
NOTE: This is a combined review of Ingmar Bergman's "Faith trilogy" (1961 - 1963).
Bergman's intense, claustrophobic triptych is a challenge even to hardened cinephiles. At times almost unbearably bleak, the three films exhibit an uncanny psychological realism, som...( read more) -
May 6, 2008
Bergman at his most Bergman-esqe.
This Swedish art film set on the brink of WW3 examines the silence of god and lesbian incest. A heavy stylistic influence on Kubrick's the Shining, the images are both hypnotic, stunning and frightening at the same time.
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October 29, 2009
Ironiquement, bien qu'il soit le film de Bergman ayant récolté les meilleures recettes, "Le Silence" est probablement son plus austère. Encore plus peut-être que son prédécesseur "Les Communicants" (Winter Light) qui ne donnait pas non plus sa place... Il faut bien le dire, la po...( read more)
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August 12, 2009
This one that i will never forget...Strange...i saw this on a public tv station uncut
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May 28, 2009
Very intense and claustrophobic movie by Bergman, with great acting performances. A disturbing history. A movie that should be considered at the same level as Persona, imo.
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April 27, 2009
The heat exhausts even the brave.Spiritual breakdown however unleashes frigid consequences underneath the surface.Silence will come as a noisy inflammation.Thulin is groundbreaking and Lindblom revealing!!!
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