Hej! Scandinavia Film Series: The Silence (The Janus Collection)
The Janus Collection
The Silence
dir. Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1963, 35mm, 95 mins, b/w, Swedish w/ English subtitles
Join us preceeding this screening for a wine reception at 6:30pm.
Two sisters – the sickly, intellectual Ester and the sensual, pragmatic Anna – travel by train with Anna’s young son Johan to a foreign country seemingly on the brink of war. Attempting to cope with their alien surroundings, the sisters resort to their personal vices while vying for Johan’s affection, and in so doing sabotage any hope for a future together. Regarded as one of the most sexually provocative films of its day, Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence offers a brilliant, disturbing vision of emotional isolation in a suffocating spiritual void.
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