All These Women
This is Ingmar Bergman's first color film.,Isolde: I sit admiring his hands. I go funny all over when I watch that hand twiddling the strings. And in a trice I'm sitting where the cello was.
Cornelius: It's not possible.
Isolde: He has such wonderful fingering. Isn't that what it's called?,The disclaimer at the beginning states that: "Every similarity between this film and the so-called reality has to be a misunderstanding".,Featured in Le ciné-club de Radio-Canada: Film présenté: Toutes ces femmes ou À propos de toutes ces femmes (1982),Orchestral Suite No. 3 D-dur (BWV 1068)
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach,Amazing that this film is on DVD. I saw it in 1967 (in suburban Sacramento of all places) and have never seen a trace of it since.

It is a fairly terrible movie, but it does have its place in Bergman's movies. Swedish reviewers at this point in his career were among his severest critics, and this movie was his response. It should have been deft and ironic but, as I think we're all aware by now, Bergman is not exactly over-burdened with a sense of humor. I suppose he also thought color as something of a joke at that time, which might explain some of the very ugly effects.

I can't really recommend the movie but it does give some insight into Bergman, so I rank it a little higher than the other reviewers.

P.S. And I thank Anders, the foreign exchange student from Stockholm at my high school, for making me see this movie and who filled me in on the info about Bergman and the critics. He too thought it a lousy movie.,