DK

1Mar11

Tracked this down for its Bergman associations (Thulin, the kid from The Silence and Persona, as well as the great Naima Wifstrand). Some great cinematography but the boy's past, dominated by a hedonistic mother, played by Thulin, was a little too wacky. The present-day sequences were much more effective for their subtlety, quietness and the restrained acting of Brundin and Hjelm. Not a lost classic so much as curio