Thirst

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Audience Member Belo roteiro sobre relacionamentos e traumas, ainda que novamente tenha falhas na montagem. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member An oddity for Bergman as it wasn't written by him, it nevertheless shows a modern feminist bent in involving both lesbian relationships and illegal abortions. Interesting to compare this with the later Smiles of a Summer Night, a much more polished and finer realized glimpse at three relationships. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member An oddity for Bergman as it wasn't written by him, it nevertheless shows a modern feminist bent in involving both lesbian relationships and illegal abortions. Interesting to compare this with the later Smiles of a Summer Night, a much more polished and finer realized glimpse at three relationships. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member I suppose the film was pretty different in 40s touching topics like abortion, suicide, lesbian as well as emotional and personal depth of the character. As a whole, it had good dialogs, interesting relationship drama. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review walter m In "Thirst," Rut(Eva Henning), a dancer, loves Raoul(Bengt Eklund). She is heartbroken when he tells her he is married with children. Even worse, is when the Mrs.(Gaby Stenberg) shows up at their apartment unannounced. At least, her next relationship works out better, as she gets married to Bertil(Birger Malmsten), an assistant lecturer. So while they talk about their finances on their honeymoon, she also relives the torment of a botched abortion that has left her sterile. Three years into his directing career, this is more like the Ingmar Bergman we are very familiar with. Sure, a lot of "Thirst" is pure melodrama but there is also a lot of metaphysics included here in this depiction of a radiply changing post-war Sweden. In fact, this seems positively provocative not only for then(what with one character being a lesbian and all) but maybe even a little for today, framed around not condemning Rut for having an abortion and ending with a conversation involving a minister who seeks to reform the notion of marriage, with the chauvinistic Raoul being the villain of the piece. While there is one great scene involving a crowd outside of a train, the editing leaves something to be desired as the scenes involving Viola(Birgit Tengroth), Bertil's ex who might have endocrinitis, no elephantitis, no wait, encephalitis, feel like a different movie entirely. And either all of the characters are from the same social circle or Sweden has a really small population. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member the film starts a bit slow and meanders through the first half, but when it picks up it becomes a very interesting character study involving such difficult topics as suicide and abortion. bergman flexes his visual style in new ways in this film. overall very interesting. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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