Eva Henning is sexy and temperamental and uninhibited and the bright spot of this otherwise excessively talky early Ingmar Bergman drama. It's a little all over the map: most of the running time goes by with endless talking sessions between the two main characters (Henning and her husband) in enclosed spaces (a hotel room, later a train compartment), but there are occasional forays into the lives of one or two peripheral characters - who are, however, SO peripheral that when the film focuses on them it's like we've switched channels altogether; Mimi Nelson does play what must be one of cinema's earliest predatory lesbians. ** out of 4.
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