The Silence
Ingmar Bergman / SE, 1962 / 95 min.
Two sisters take a train to a foreign country and become embroiled in a mysterious, psychological struggle. Ingmar Bergman’s ominous drama was one of the most sexually provocative films of its era.
The sensual, pragmatic Anna and the sick intellectual Ester slowly traverse the night aboard a train. They prove to be sisters and perhaps lovers. Anna and Ester are the two sides of a single person, a device Ingmar Bergman would later explore in more detail in Persona. Anna is almost entirely determined by her physicality in stark contrast to Ester, the translator with her typewriter, paper and pens who suffers from a lung disease that makes it hard to breathe.
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Director
Ingmar Bergman
Production year
1962
Country
SE
Original title
Tystnaden
Length
95 min.
Language
Swedish, English, German, French
Subtitles
ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
Winter Light
Swedish director Ingmar Bergman’s influence remains significant, and interest in his work endures. Eye is releasing six digitally restored Bergman classics nationwide, including The Seventh Seal (1957) and Persona (1966), while also screening six other highlights in Eye.
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