The Devil's Eye (Svensk Filmindustri), a minor, clever, somewhat symbolixed comedy by Sweden's Ingmar Bergman, is intended as a bawdy song of innocence and experience, a frisky marriage of heaven and hell.
The action opens in the latter region, where His Satanic Majesty has acquired a painful sty in his evil little eye. This, his ministers agree, is when a fellow needs a fiend. They remind Mephisto that "a woman's chastity is a sty in the Devil's Eye.'' and point out the perfection that has caused his infection—the virgin daughter (Bibi Andersson) of an innocent country parson (Nils Poppe). "Where innocence is...