Another dying female/sister film. Stricken sister Ester (Ingrid Thulin) is boozing vodka, puffing away, trying to translate. She’s in some nameless Soviet-style country in a posh hotel, stuck there in limbo, in transit. There with her younger sister – Anna – who has gone out in a short dress looking for some action; she sees [...]
The Dvd this was on has already been recorded over. So i obviously didn’t get into this film much. There’s a long opening scene of a drawn out drab church service in which the holy sacrament is given/taken. I’d find it boring enough to sit through that in reality – so to watch it enacted [...]
I was wondering whether to bin the vid this film was taped on. Glad i didn’t. It starts off slow but gets intense and intenser. And red. And then redder. The clocks tock. Two sisters – Maria and Karin – sit around watching and waiting for 3rd sister – Agnes – to die of cancer. [...]
