1961 drama
Rating: 17/20
Plot: God's a spider, so they have to whisk the crazy lady off in a helicopter.
With mental breakdowns, writer's block, a play-within-a-movie, spider-God rape attempts, and incest, this is a much tougher nut to crack than its follow-up in the "silence of God" trilogy. The actors are playing characters, but they're not really playing people, more like symbols personified. Harriet Andersson is particularly good as a daughter, wife, and sister, a woman who is crazy like women in movies can be crazy.
Sven Nykvist cinematographied on this one, too, and they really know how to take advantage of this island of Toro where Bergman would go on to film over 100 films.
That last statistic might not be accurate.
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