Thoughts: The last of Ingmar Bergman’s faith trilogy and by far the most disturbing. Ester (Ingrid Thulin) and Anna (Gunnel Lindblom) are heading back home but make a stop in some unknown place at a hotel because Ester is ill. Anna’s young son Johan (Jorgen Lindstrom) has joined them on this journey and is eager to head home. He finds the hotel strange and peculiar with the waiter and midget performance troupe living there. Meanwhile his mother is out finding a man to sleep with to make her sister jealous and upset. Yes I wrote jealous because apparently the themes within the film are incest, lesbians and alienation. The movie was well done and well acted but odd. When it was released in 1963, it came under much criticism and shock due to the sexually explicit scenes and subject matter. Freud would have loved this movie.
(M) Carne Tremula (Live Flesh). (Pedro Almodovar, 1997) Grade: B-
Thoughts: After leaving jail, Victor (Liberto Rabal) tries to find Elena (Francesca Neri) the woman he still loves and who put him in jail but she is already married to paralysed basketball player/ex-cop David. Victor is out for revenge because he was wrongly placed in jail for a crime he did not commit. This movie is standard Pedro Almodovar style, if anything it is pretty basic but still extremely enjoyable. The characters are all rich and interesting and having Madrid be the background is never bad in my eyes.
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