The fourth and final installment in the Broadcasting Bergman series of films will be "The Silence" from 1962. The film will be screened at 6:00pm this Wednesday (24/11/10).
THE SILENCE
The last movie in Bergman's so-called "Faith Trilogy", the movie concerns the emotional distance between two sisters. The younger one is still attractive enough to pick up a lover in a strange city. The older one, even though she is very ill, would like to make a human connection also but cannot leave the hotel room. Traveling with the sisters is a small boy who escapes into the hotel, meets a troupe of dwarfs. Which sister is this little boy's mother?
