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Early Bergman, and from the onset it is clear an artist is at work. The first conversation piece, with all 5 waiting women in the same room, is a long shot approaching 4 minutes, with various of the women talking. There are also already some typical Bergman postures, with one woman talking intensely and the one next to her staring vapidly past her downwards, seemingly lost in her own inner world. All that in well and good, but as soon as I heard the first monotonous monologue from the mother, her eyes turning to heaven, speaking of how she can not reach out to her husband", not even to scratch his eyes out, my Bergman-radar immediately hit the red zone. And surely enough, we are in for group therapy all the way, as each woman tells of one significant episode from their lives with their husbands. But it is a very elegant movie, and along the way you become quite sympathetic, even though all the stories describe infidelity and frigid bourgeous lives. My eye was caught by Eva Dahlbeck, who I also recently saw in Sommarnöje sökes. Here, at 32, she is sizzlingly hot. Overall it is a movie not to be missed by Bergman lovers, if mainly for historical reasons. His next movie was Monika, so this one can be said to commence his golden period. For the trivia-consumers: IMDb informs that Eva Dahlbeck has recently filed for divorce, after, ahem, 67 years of marriage. You go, girl!

四个女人分别嫁给了四兄弟。一个夏天在等待丈夫回家休假的过程中，四人分别述说了各自的婚姻状况。一个因自己红杏出墙引致与丈夫争吵，一个在巴黎与一个艺术家相恋并有了孩子但却拒绝结婚，一个讲述了夫妻俩被困电梯的故事，最后一个则要与情人男友私奔。
　　伯格曼用室内剧的形式将女人们内心的秘密一一暴露出来，然而影片也强调这并不能减轻她们的压力和痛苦。这样的分享带来的只是苦难的交流和更难言的秘密。

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