This is the first Ingmar Bergman film I’ve seen (I’m not counting the time I fell asleep half way through THE SEVENTH SEAL in college). It was a bizarre film that fills many different genres. It’s an experimental, psychological, psychosexual, thriller drama. I’ve honestly never seen anything like that. I don’t really know what to think of it and I guess that’s the point. It’s like a psych test that asks, “Tell me what you think this is about?” It’s not as experimental as other films, but it oddly is so open to interpretation. Bibi Andersson reminds me of Jodie Whitaker or a young Ellen Barkin. There were moments I really loved in this. You can really see how so many people (like David Lynch and Robert Eggers) were influenced by this one.
