Two sisters and the young son of one of them wind up in an small town on the brink of war. The elder sister is ill, masturbates; the younger sister walks around topless a lot, goes to a cinema and sees two strangers have raunchy sex (they really go for it, with straddling laps and boobs and everything), then picks up a waiter and has sex with him.
These things helped make this movie a considerable box office success on the art house circuit - more so than, say, the troupe of midgets who are also in the movie or the little kid who acts as a kind of go-between. I could recognise the quality of the acting, particular Ingrid Thulin, who played the eldest sister, and the scenes - and I got the two women were meant to be different sides of the same person, or something.And it's beautifully shot.
But for me it really lacked story - and that got to me. Also the character of the younger sister was not that engaging, no matter how sexy she was. This film wasn't that emotionally involving.
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