Waiting Women ( Kvinnors väntan ) ( Secrets of Women )

Waiting Women (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Kvinnors väntan
Alternate Title: Secrets of Women
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
103 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Production Notes
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1952 and produced in:
Sweden ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Ingmar Bergman

Written By:
Ingmar Bergman
Gun Grut

Actors:
Anita Björk ..... Rakel
Eva Dahlbeck ..... Karin
Maj-Britt Nilsson ..... Marta
Birger Malmsten ..... Martin Lobelius
Gunnar Björnstrand ..... Fredrik Lobelius
Karl-Arne Holmsten ..... Eugen Lobelius
Jarl Kulle ..... Kaj
Aino Taube ..... Annette (as Aino Taube-Henrikson)
Håkan Westergren ..... Paul Lobelius
Gerd Andersson ..... Maj
Björn Bjelfvenstam ..... Henrik Lobelius (as Björn Bjelvenstam)

Synopsis:

In this multi-faceted Ingmar Bergman film, rich in dramatic and comic elements, three wives pass time in a summer house, awaiting the returns of their husbands, by entertaining each other with recollections of past marital traumas. In the first recollection, the sexually unfulfilled Rakel (Anita Bjork) shares a bathhouse, and more, with a former lover, Kaj (Jarl Kulle). When her emotionally withdrawn husband (Karl-Arne Holmsten), an antiques collector, returns and discovers the incident, he retreats to a garden hut and vows to kill himself. But he is dissuaded from self-destruction by his older brother, who blithely reassures him that an unfaithful wife is better than no wife! The narrator of this episode wearily allows that her husband is little more than a child. Marta (Maj-Brit Nilsson), the storytelling wife of the second episode, recalls her love affair and marriage to a Parisian artist (Birger Malmsten) whose family disapproved of the relationship. Included in her tale is a vivid child birthing. The third episode is a comic classic in which Bergman regulars Eva Dahlbeck and Gunnar Bjornstrand play emotionally estranged spouses who rekindle their marriage while trapped in an elevator. Kvinnors Väntan, which closes with the resolution of a framing tale involving the elopement of two younger lovers, shows Bergman in complete mastery of the film medium. Whether manipulating close-ups during an emotional give-and-take seduction or employing symbolic imagery to emphasize the joy of becoming a parent or merely allowing consummate pros to indulge in slapstick, he proves himself unfailingly adept at all facets of filmmaking. This is one of several lesser-known but nonetheless impressive Bergman films from the mid-1950s.

A group of sister-in-laws await the arrival of their husbands in an old summer villa. As time passes, they chat amongst themselves and, as the discussion moves onto relationships, they become ever more candid as they reveal various marital secrets...

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