Bergman’s cruelest, most beautiful film. A traveling circus arrives in a small Swedish town just as autumn turns to winter. The cinematography (by Sven Nykvist) is brutally pale: washed-out faces, muddy ground, a sky the color of old steel. The famous beach scene — a humiliated clown trudging through cold surf — is pure Russian Blue agony.
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