The Silence

Bergman's final film in his trilogy about faith (following THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY and WINTER LIGHT) is typical of his film style: stark, mystic, and loaded with and symbolism. Thulin is a lesbian intellectual who is strongly attracted to her younger sister, Lindblom, the sexually active mother of the ten-year-old Lindstrom. As the three are traveling home to Sweden, they are forced to stop in an unnamed country because of Thulin's tuberculosis. While Thulin gets drunk in her hotel room and masturbates, her sister wanders through the foreign city, spies a couple making love, and finds a companion in the hotel waiter. In the meantime, Lindstrom meets a troupe of midg...