Drama
Swedish
1966 · Directed by Ingmar Bergman · 85 min
A young nurse is assigned to care for a celebrated stage actress who has stopped speaking, although doctors can find nothing physically wrong with her. The two women move to a secluded house by the sea, where one talks and the other listens. Spare, intimate and increasingly unsettling in tone.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining work of 1960s European modernism, in which Bergman moved from spiritual drama to a radical, compressed inquiry into identity and performance.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a study of speaking and listening, where faces and silences carry as much meaning as the dialogue.
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