A passion can be something lovely and painful at the same time, it can also be something solely painful, as with the Passion of Christ.
In this film we get to meet four main characters, very different and yet very much alike, all tormented in their own ways.
Andreas Winkelman (Max von Sydow) seems to be the hermit among the four, having lost his wife and still grieving her.
One day he is visited by a woman - Anna Fromm (Liv Ullman) - who wants to use his phone.
He overhears her conversation, a rather desperate one, pleading for money. On the same time he becomes interested in her, feeling sorry for this unknown woman in apparent dispair.
When she has left he finds her handbag and when trying to leave it back he meets a couple - Eva and Elis Vergerus (Bibi Andersson and Erland Josephson) - mutual friends of Anna with their own psychological, marital problems.
Anna is also a troubled person being in a similar situation as Andreas, having lost her husband and child and like Andreas she is yearning for her 'Paradise Lost' - or is this really the case? Doesn't she hide something?
After a dinner at Vergerus home where all four get to know each other under more relaxed circumstances, Andreas and Anna starts a relationship, at first a passionate one meaning lovely and painful but after a while more and more painful.
Anna has her secrets and maybe it was these secrets Eva tried to warn Andreas about in a cryptic way in connection to the dinner. Of course he didn't pay attention.
Slaughtered animals are being found everywhere on the island and one inhabitant (none of the four) is suspected, leading to terryfying consequences for him in the end.
Was he really the culpable or...?
The film starts with Andreas seeing a sun dog (mock sun, phantom sun) a sign that usually signifies disaster in some way and disaster we will see.
In this way we see the typically vertical story telling of Ingmar Bergman, from the heavens to the earth or vice versa, bringing the humans in contact with nature and Cosmos in a most direct way.
All four characters seem to be looking for the perfect relationship from without different ideals, leaving them more lonely than if they had rested singles. This as their ideals never match the reality - as most often in our lives - and they are incapable of dealing with this, as it seems.
Intriguing, mysterious, psychologically interesting with good acting in combination with interesting photage makes this film a very interesting and maybe somewhat underrated œuvre by Bergman.
The film is combined with interviews with the actors where they get a chance to comment on their characters.
In this film we get to meet four main characters, very different and yet very much alike, all tormented in their own ways.
Andreas Winkelman (Max von Sydow) seems to be the hermit among the four, having lost his wife and still grieving her.
One day he is visited by a woman - Anna Fromm (Liv Ullman) - who wants to use his phone.
He overhears her conversation, a rather desperate one, pleading for money. On the same time he becomes interested in her, feeling sorry for this unknown woman in apparent dispair.
When she has left he finds her handbag and when trying to leave it back he meets a couple - Eva and Elis Vergerus (Bibi Andersson and Erland Josephson) - mutual friends of Anna with their own psychological, marital problems.
Anna is also a troubled person being in a similar situation as Andreas, having lost her husband and child and like Andreas she is yearning for her 'Paradise Lost' - or is this really the case? Doesn't she hide something?
After a dinner at Vergerus home where all four get to know each other under more relaxed circumstances, Andreas and Anna starts a relationship, at first a passionate one meaning lovely and painful but after a while more and more painful.
Anna has her secrets and maybe it was these secrets Eva tried to warn Andreas about in a cryptic way in connection to the dinner. Of course he didn't pay attention.
Slaughtered animals are being found everywhere on the island and one inhabitant (none of the four) is suspected, leading to terryfying consequences for him in the end.
Was he really the culpable or...?
The film starts with Andreas seeing a sun dog (mock sun, phantom sun) a sign that usually signifies disaster in some way and disaster we will see.
In this way we see the typically vertical story telling of Ingmar Bergman, from the heavens to the earth or vice versa, bringing the humans in contact with nature and Cosmos in a most direct way.
All four characters seem to be looking for the perfect relationship from without different ideals, leaving them more lonely than if they had rested singles. This as their ideals never match the reality - as most often in our lives - and they are incapable of dealing with this, as it seems.
Intriguing, mysterious, psychologically interesting with good acting in combination with interesting photage makes this film a very interesting and maybe somewhat underrated œuvre by Bergman.
The film is combined with interviews with the actors where they get a chance to comment on their characters.
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