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Phoebe Pua
30Oct11
The world ends not with a bang, but a whisper in a language you cannot understand.
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ENFANT TERRIBLE, Terrence Ingmar Kubrovsky, Matthew Landry, ramosbarajas
ramosbarajas
16Oct11
The Silence is eerie and ordinary. It feels dream-like and solid at the same time. It lingers between contrasting moods, and it does so perfectly. Even the two characters are complete opposites, making their lives miserable. There is no hesitation between the two contrasts, merely a masterful mixture that makes the final product very suffocating but at the same time hopeful.
Joel
29Jul11
Such a suffocating film, it is almost boring at points with it's utter emptiness. Some profound moments but definitely my least favorite of the trilogy. Much to mull through.
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David Huxley
8Jun11
Up there with Petra in "Smiles of a Summer Night", Anna in "The Silence" is one of most sexual characters ever created by Bergman. It defies the perception that he can only write cold, austere, cerebral characters like Ester, the invalid sister. Most of the film is seen through the eyes of ten-year-old Johan, rare for Bergman, but it foreshadows the viewpoint he would later use in "Fanny and Alexander."
AntioneOscar69
5Mar11
An excellent end to Bergman's "silence of god" trilogy, also the least explicitly religious and most ambiguous; with a playfulness and eroticism rarely equaled in other Bergman films.
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WhatsUpWill
23Sep10
The title is apt. This is almost a silent film and a wondrous one at that. My sixth Bergman and not a bad one yet!
Zachary George Najarian-Najafi
10Sep10
The best part of the faith trilogy. It cuts down on a lot of the fluff that I thought brought down the previous two films and is instead a beautiful, unpretentious, almost fully realized work. The images and use of space are stunning, as well as the way Bergman uses his actresses faces. It isn't perfect, but it's something of a practice run for what would be Persona.
