Rent The Silence (1963)
3.7 of 5 from 94 ratings
1h 34min
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- 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... - Actors:
- Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten, Håkan Jahnberg, Jörgen Lindström, Lissi Alandh, Karl-Arne Bergman, Leif Forstenberg, Eduardo Gutiérrez, Eskil Kalling, Birger Lensander, Kristina Olausson, Nils Waldt, Olof Widgren
- Directors:
- Ingmar Bergman
- Producers:
- Allan Ekelund
- Writers:
- Ingmar Bergman
- Aka:
- Tystnaden
- Studio:
- Tartan
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
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- Countries:
- Sweden
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Reviews (1) of The Silence
Heat and Silence - The Silence review by griggs
Bergman's hotel-room chamber piece runs on heat and silence: two sisters trapped together in a city whose language nobody speaks, saying almost nothing while everything curdles underneath.
Ester is dying slowly upstairs with her translations and her cough. Anna's downstairs, sweating through her dress and eyeing up strangers in the bar. I found myself leaning forward during the quiet bits, half expecting someone to finally say the thing nobody's saying. The city outside doesn't help, close and humid, with tanks rumbling past like nobody's told them there's a plot to interrupt.
It doesn't explain itself and doesn't want to. Anna ends up with a man in the corridor mostly because it's something to do with her hands, not because she actually wants him there.
Austere, stubbornly uncomfortable, and still rattling round my head.
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