Two foreign films last week were embroiled in sizzling moral controversynot in the supposedly Puritan-minded U.S., but on their own home ground.
¶ Jungfrukallan (The Virgin Spring), latest film by Sweden's brilliant Writer-Director Ingmar (The Magician) Bergman, begins with the shockingly explicit rape and murder of a young girl by two goatherds. Two vengeful murders later, the goatherds are also dead on the screen, butchered by the girl's father. More than a dozen people at the first-showing fled the Stockholm theater before the brilliantly acted movie was finished. Some newspaper critics suggested...
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