As I said of Cries and Whispers, you just can’t deny the power of Ingmar Bergman’s movies. They just leave you with something totally different. This one reminded me at turns of Peeping Tom, The Night Porter, even Vanilla Sky. At least the first half hour is mesmerizing, the cinematography just astounding, but it loses interest around halfway. What’s amazing is how little the actors “get in the way” of the film making. You barely notice they’re there, so much do the other elements, the sound and the light etc, work to tell the story. It’s also disorientingly timeless – when the 70s/80s music starts blasting from the radio, it’s such a jolt.

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