The Silence

BERGMAN at his most POWERFUL! SHOCKING! BOLD!

A austere, philosophically dense chamber piece about isolation, desire, and the failure of language to bridge human separation, set against the shadow of impending catastrophe.

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.