While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.
Direction
Ekman's fluid camera slips between present and imagined without warning.
Acting
Henning's elusive Gabrielle — we only see her through his paranoid lens.
Cinematography
Dreamlike Swedish summer light weaponized into dread.
Director
Hasse Ekman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Ekman's commercial peak, this flopped hard — audiences wanted his comedies, not this Bergman-esque bummer.
Ekman cast his then-wife Eva Henning as the possibly-unfaithful wife while their own marriage crumbled. Method casting?
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