Silence, The (UK)

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Review of Silence, The
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Michael Tsang

Awarded `Best Film of the Year` by the Swedish Academy in 1963
Certificate: 15
Running Time: 95 mins
Retail Price: £19.99
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Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
United since childhood in apparent incest, two sisters struggle and part as the younger seeks her freedom in a heterosexual affair. Bergman`s sombre view of modern man`s condition - wherein human relations are grotesquely egocentric and perversely sexual - is a shattering vision of despair.
Ester (Ingrid Thulin), Anna (Gunnel Lindblom) and Anna`s son Johan (Jorgen Lidstrom) travel by train to a foreign city whose language they do not understand. In an arid hostel, Ester tries to retain her sexual hold upon her sister. Anna leaves, however and in a nearby cabaret watches a couple making love; she picks up a man and returns to the hotel. Playing with a kindly porter, Johan overhears Ester confronting Anna with the man in her room. Tanks roll through the city streets. Ester is dying and several times thinks her sister has left...

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Philip Strick Film notes
Extract from Bergman`s book `Images - My Life in Film`