The Silence (1963)
Ingmar Bergman · 95 min
The Silence screens once in London: BFI Southbank, Saturday 22 August at 12:15.
Where to watch it
BFI Southbank
Belvedere Rd, Waterloo, London SE1 8XT
The Silence
What it is
Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.