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All These Women (Swedish: För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor), originally released as Now About These Women in the UK, is a 1964 Swedish comedy film directed by Ingmar Bergman. It is a parody of Federico Fellini's 8½. Along with Smiles of a Summer Night, the film is one of the few comedy films ever made by Bergman.
All These Women: Directed by Ingmar Bergman. With Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck, Karin Kavli. A critic blackmails a famous musician with his biography filled with the revelations of many of his women.
- (2.6K)
- Comedy
- Ingmar Bergman
- 1964-10-05
A critic's efforts to write a biography are hampered by all the women in his subject's house.
All These Women. Conceived as an amusing diversion in the wake of Ingmar Bergman’s despairing trilogy, this comedy is the director’s first film in color, and it is an opulent visual feast.
- Cornelius
Ingmar Bergman’s self-proclaimed “convincing and well-deserved fiasco”, All These Women, is a miscalculated absurdist comedy that, while abounding in promising flourishes and some legitimately winning moments, relies too heavily on the exaggerated mugging of its lead and humor that yo-yos wildly from riotous to tedious.
- (3K)
- SF Studios
- Ingmar Bergman
The critic Cornelius is writing a biography on a famous cellist and stays in his house to carry out research. He doesn’t get to interview the man, but by talking to all the women who live with him, he comes to learn a lot about the musician’s private life. (Also known as Now About These Women.)
Synopsis by Hal Erickson. What is so rare, and cherishable, as an Ingmar Bergman comedy? All These Women concerns the sexual misadventures of cello-playing Jarl Kulle. Amidst his many romantic pursuits, the egotistical Kulle endeavors to get his life story published, "bribing" a writer by agreeing to perform the latter's musical compositions.
