early bergman and and from the onset it be clear an artist be at work . the first conversation piece and with all 5 wait woman in the same room and be a long shot approach 4 minute and with various of the woman talk . there be also already some typical bergman posture and with one woman talk intensely and the one next to her star vapidly past her downwards and seemingly lose in her own inner world . all that in well and good and but as soon a i hear the first monotonous monologue from the mother and her eye turn to heaven and speak of how she can not reach out to her husband and not even to scratch his eye out and my bergman radar immediately hit the red zone . and surely enough and we be in for group therapy all the way and a each woman tell of one significant episode from their life with their husband . but it be a very elegant movie and and along the way you become quite sympathetic and even though all the story describe infidelity and frigid bourgeous life . my eye be catch by eva dahlbeck and who i also recently saw in sommarnöje sökes . here and at 32 and she be sizzlingly hot . overall it be a movie not to be miss by bergman lover and if mainly for historical reason . his next movie be monika and so this one can be say to commence his golden period . for the trivia consumer represent imdb informs that eva dahlbeck have recently file for divorce and after and ahem and 67 year of marriage . you go and girl .