Please join us for the second screening in the March Bergman Trilogy, THE SILENCE (1963). The program will begin at 7pm with an introduction by Christopher Sharrett, PhD., BVFCC member and Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at Seton Hall University. Free popcorn will be available and the Best Video Coffee Bar (BVCB) will be open for beer, wine, and café drinks. There is a suggested donation of $7.

THE SILENCE (1963) - Two sisters—the sickly, intellectual Ester (Ingrid Thulin) and the sensual, pragmatic Anna (Gunnel Lindblom)—travel by train with Anna’s young son, Johan (Jörgen Lindström), to a foreign country that appears to be on the brink of war. Attempting to cope with their alien surroundings, each sister is left to her own vices while they vie for Johan’s affection, and in so doing sabotage what little remains of their relationship. Regarded as one of the most sexually provocative films of its day, Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence offers a disturbing vision of emotional isolation in a suffocating spiritual void.

Christopher Sharrett, Ph.D., a BVFCC member, is Professor Emeritus at Seton Hall University. He earned his doctorate (with distinction) in Cinema Studies at New York University, 1983. He has written or edited six books on film, and published hundreds of essays, articles, and reviews in international film journals. He is currently a Contributing Editor for Film International and Cineaste, and has sat on the editorial boards of Quarterly Review of Film and Video and Cinema Journal. He is an Associate and alternate chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation.