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The Touch (1971)

The Touch poster
Original title
Beröringen
Directed by
Ingmar Bergman
Genre
drama film
Country
Sweden, United States
Runtime
1h 55m
Rated
K-16
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 59 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A married woman begins an affair with an impulsive foreigner. Their relationship brings conflict and emotional turmoil into her settled life.

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What happens

The Touch (Swedish: Beröringen) is a 1971 romantic drama film directed and written by Ingmar Bergman and starring Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Elliott Gould, and Sheila Reid. The film tells the story of an affair between a married woman and an impetuous foreigner. It contains references to the Virgin Mary and the Holocaust. Produced by ABC Pictures, The Touch was Bergman's first English-language film, but made in two versions - one in Swedish and English, the other wholly in English. It was shot on the island of Gotland in Sweden in 1970. Cinematographer Sven Nykvist shot it in Eastmancolor. Gould, cast over Paul Newman and Robert Redford, believed Bergman's screenplay was semi-autobiographical. The film received mixed to negative reviews and failed at the box office. It later had a limited rerelease by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2011 and a home media release by The Criterion Collection in 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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