Three pregnant women about to give birth meet and bond in a hospital ward. That's about it for the plot of this soap operish film. If you are looking for a film celebrating childbirth you have certainly come to the wrong film, this is an Ingmar Bergman film.
This film is unbelievably depressing even for a Bergman film. All the relationships between the women and their husbands are shall we say kind of lacking. The plot line moves from one angst ridden pregnant woman to another and needless to say the film does not resolve itself with a happy ending.
If the film has anything going for it, it's the cast of performers Bergman assembled for this film. Ingrid Thulin, Eva Dahlbeck, Bibi Andersson, Max Von Sydow and Erland Josephson are all members of Ingmar Bergman's famous "stock company."
It's difficult to see what Bergman saw in this pointless story. This is one of his rare films where he doesn't take a writing credit. Unaccountably the film won several awards at the Cannes Film festival for Bergman, Thulin, Dahlbeck and Andersson. I won't argue that the film is well acted and well made, but it is an awfully depressing slog to sit through. However all the women are very good at crying on cue.
The film was written by Ulla Isaksson, the running time is 84 minutes.
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