Sawdust and Tinsel: Criterion Collection: (Gycklarnas afton)

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Cast: Åke Grönberg, Anders Ek, Harriet Andersson, Gudrun Brost, Hasse Ekman

(1953) Rated: Unrated

US DVD release date: 20 November 2007 (Criterion)

[11 December 2007]

by Chadwick Jenkins

Love's Impossible Demands

Couples in this film draw blood in order to feel the human warmth left behind by bruises.
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