The Silence

The third film in the Ingmar Bergman trilogy beginning with Through a Glass Darkly and Winter Light, this movie follows the sisters Ester (Ingrid Thulin) and Anna (Gunnel Lindblom) as they travel to their Swedish home in the company of Anna’s son, Johan (Jorgen Lindstrom). While Ester is a sexually frustrated lesbian, her sister engages in numerous sexual relations with a series of men, and their sexual drives are at the root of the tragedy that befalls them during a hotel stay., In Ingmar Bergman’s landmark drama, two sisters deal with their tragic relationship while stranded in a desolate, war torn city. The film is notable for Bergman’s stark photographic technique., Ingmar Bergman’s film is the compelling, stark story of two sisters (Ingrid Thulin and Gunnel Lindblum) who book into a bleak, deserted hotel. Underlying sexual tensions and unspoken emotions abound in this study of everyone’s need for love., Ingmar Bergman’s film is the compelling, stark story of two sisters (Ingrid Thulin and Gunnel Lindblum) who book into a bleak, deserted hotel. Underlying sexual tensions and unspoken emotions abound in this study of everyone’s need for love. In Swedish with subtitles.