The Silence (1963 film)
The Silence (Swedish: Tystnaden) is a 1963 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Ingrid Thulin and Gunnel Lindblom. The plot focuses on two sisters – the younger a sensuous woman with a young son, the elder more intellectually oriented and seriously ill — and their tense relationship as they travel toward home through a fictional Central European country on the brink of war.
Plot
Two emotionally estranged sisters, Ester (Ingrid Thulin) and Anna (Gunnel Lindblom), and Anna's son, Johan (Jörgen Lindström), a boy of 10, are on a night train journey back home. Ester, the older sister and a literary translator, is seriously ill. Anna coldly assists her, seemingly resenting the burden. They decide to interrupt the journey in the next town called "Timoka", settled in a fictitious Central European country with an incomprehensible language and on the brink of war.
The sisters rent a two-room-apartment in a once-grandiose hotel. Ester suffers in her room, self-medicating with vodka and cigarettes while trying to work. Johan wanders around the hotel's hallways, encountering the elderly hotel porter and a group of Spanish dwarves who are part of a traveling show. Meanwhile, Anna ventures into the city and is openly advanced by a waiter in a cafe. Later, she watches a show in an uncrowded theatre, and is both repelled and fascinated when a young couple begin to have sex in a seat nearby. Anna returns to the cafe, brushes past the waiter, and returns to the hotel in time.
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ALBUMS
- Lord of Mercy released: 2009
Silence, The
ALBUMS
- Psychick Is Dead / Laceiba released: 1998
- Virtual Synthesis EP released: 1997
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- Audio Alchemy released: 2004
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by: Gates Of IshtarYou take your seat by the window,
And always get your way.
Luck spins her web slowly,
Dragons line the way.
Little ways, little things, idiosyncrasies,
Were just going around in circles,
Never take liberties, kiss your neck, slowly leave,
Is there something around the corner?
Ceasing to amaze this time,
We'll fight amongst ourseleves,
You'll chalk up a divide line, that keeps me at bay.
Stereo still looks at me, im fed up of answer phones.
When all youve got is negatives, it's hard not to feel so.
Loans mistaken affection,
Put them in your place
Cant buy her with gold leaf,
Incense hides the...
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