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The Touch
Directed by
Ingmar Bergman
R
1971
1h 55m
Drama
,
Romance
6.3
64%
39%
5.8
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A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Holocaust survivor; consequently, their relationship will be painfully difficult.
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Cast of The Touch
Elliott Gould
David Kovac
Bibi Andersson
Karin Vergerus
Max von Sydow
Andreas Vergerus
Sheila Reid
Sara Kovac
Margaretha Byström
Secretary to Andreas Vergerus
Elsa Ebbesen-Thornblad
Hospital Matron
Barbro Hiort af Ornäs
Karin's Mother
Åke Lindström
Dr. Holm
Aino Taube
Mimmo Wåhlander
Nurse
Dennis Gotobed
Karin Gry
Staffan Hallerstam
Maria Nolgård
Erik Nyhlén
Bengt Ottekil
Makeup Artist
Alan Simon
Per Sjöstrand
Carol Zavis
Ingmar Bergman
Director / Writer / Producer
The Touch Ratings & Reviews
Washington Post
Gary Arnold
The Touch is utterly ridiculous, the probable low point of Ingmar Bergman's often trying but independent and distinguished artistic career.
The New Yorker
Penelope Gilliatt
Ingmar Bergman's new film, The Touch, the best about love he has ever made, is a record of a man who brings into the existence of a calmly married couple his own feeling that death is something that has to be ambushed daily.
Alternate Ending
Tim Brayton
Shallow and unconvincing as a love story, failing to make its characters emerge as anything other than the stock types in any random early '70s adultery drama.
Vogue
Andrew Sarris
Bergman's psychological intensity, though often disconnected dramatically, grabs our throats with its intimations of unrelieved pain and suffering.
Los Angeles Free Press
John Mahoney
The Touch is constantly fascinating, a disappointment of greater interest than any handful of successes by other directors.
Variety
Variety Staff
The Touch is both a romantic film of great poignancy and strength and an example of masterful cinema honed down to deceptively simple near-perfection.
TIME Magazine
When a film of Bergman's does not measure up to the exacting standards he has set for himself, the disappointment may be slightly disproportionate. It is not any the less acute.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Not exactly Bergman at his best, but still well worth a look.
TV Guide
If you see only one Bergman movie in your life, don't let this be it.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
Although it is often oblique, the drama is without mystery, and sometimes ridiculously blunt.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Not only a disappointment but an unexpected failure of tone from a director to whom tone has usually been second nature.
Cleveland Press
Tony Mastroianni
The Touch is pure soap opera. It is not even good soap opera for it is mawkish, banal and dull.
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