An unwed pregnant teenager is run out of town and years later she returns there as a rich woman, raising the town's expectations with her generosity, but she's only out for revenge.An unwed pregnant teenager is run out of town and years later she returns there as a rich woman, raising the town's expectations with her generosity, but she's only out for revenge.An unwed pregnant teenager is run out of town and years later she returns there as a rich woman, raising the town's expectations with her generosity, but she's only out for revenge.
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Inna Alexeievna
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María Badmajew
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Roberto Bruno
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Delia Casciani
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- TriviaWilliam Holden was eager to star opposite Ingrid Bergman, but when Anthony Quinn bought the rights, he took the lead for himself.
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Karla Zachanassian: I want Serge Miller put to death. I want his life!
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Hearts and minds
As I watched the moral at the heart of "The Visit" revealed, I couldn't help thinking it was like a lavish version of an episode of "The Twilight Zone".
The blurb on the movie's poster could almost serve as Rod Serling's introduction:
"A woman... once framed and betrayed, then alone on the streets... now wealthy and worldly. Corrupting a town to buy the death of the man she loved. The man... once lover and betrayer... now haunted and hunted. The price on his life is high. And there are many bidders".
Well, sort of.
Mega-rich Karla Zachanassian (Ingrid Bergman), returns to the impoverished town of Guellen, which she left years earlier. She wants revenge on Serge Miller (Anthony Quinn) who forced her to leave pregnant, unwed and disgraced, She offers the townspeople a deal. She will take care of their financial woes in exchange for the execution of Serge. As the story proceeds, the inhabitants at first reluctant, find more and more reasons to go along with her request.
Like other reviewers, I was a little wary about the film at first. The town of Guellen is set in a fictional Eastern European country, and I find movies set in "Ruritania" dead boring. They usually have an overload of eccentric characters all working their accents overtime.
But "The Visit" got me in with Ingrid Bergman rasping out advice and commands as though she was channelling Bette Davis, while Anthony Quinn as Serge acquires insights into human nature through the moral corruption of his friends, fellow citizens and even Mathilda his wife. Nobody could do suffering and haunted like Anthony, see "Barabbas" and "The 25th Hour" for confirmation. Apparently William Holden wanted the role, but William Holden doing an accent? Quinn probably saved him from embarrassment.
The cast is a mix of international stars including Irina Demick, stunning as usual in her relatively short, 10-year movie career.
The movie feels felini-esque or even Bergman-esque, Ingmar that is. Nothing quite beats the marriage of light and shade in a well-made B/W film.
"The Visit" is a metaphor for the way even whole countries have been seduced into going against their better natures. "The Visit" has more than a little in common with Orwell's "Animal Farm". It's too interesting a film not to be seen at least once.
The blurb on the movie's poster could almost serve as Rod Serling's introduction:
"A woman... once framed and betrayed, then alone on the streets... now wealthy and worldly. Corrupting a town to buy the death of the man she loved. The man... once lover and betrayer... now haunted and hunted. The price on his life is high. And there are many bidders".
Well, sort of.
Mega-rich Karla Zachanassian (Ingrid Bergman), returns to the impoverished town of Guellen, which she left years earlier. She wants revenge on Serge Miller (Anthony Quinn) who forced her to leave pregnant, unwed and disgraced, She offers the townspeople a deal. She will take care of their financial woes in exchange for the execution of Serge. As the story proceeds, the inhabitants at first reluctant, find more and more reasons to go along with her request.
Like other reviewers, I was a little wary about the film at first. The town of Guellen is set in a fictional Eastern European country, and I find movies set in "Ruritania" dead boring. They usually have an overload of eccentric characters all working their accents overtime.
But "The Visit" got me in with Ingrid Bergman rasping out advice and commands as though she was channelling Bette Davis, while Anthony Quinn as Serge acquires insights into human nature through the moral corruption of his friends, fellow citizens and even Mathilda his wife. Nobody could do suffering and haunted like Anthony, see "Barabbas" and "The 25th Hour" for confirmation. Apparently William Holden wanted the role, but William Holden doing an accent? Quinn probably saved him from embarrassment.
The cast is a mix of international stars including Irina Demick, stunning as usual in her relatively short, 10-year movie career.
The movie feels felini-esque or even Bergman-esque, Ingmar that is. Nothing quite beats the marriage of light and shade in a well-made B/W film.
"The Visit" is a metaphor for the way even whole countries have been seduced into going against their better natures. "The Visit" has more than a little in common with Orwell's "Animal Farm". It's too interesting a film not to be seen at least once.
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