The read
Audiences rate it 31 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
A small-town piano teacher is shocked by the arrival of her foster daughter's biological mother, whose young lover soon follows and causes further disruption.
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes33%
Audiences rate it 31 points higher than critics do.
113 audience votes
Key crew
- Ingmar BergmanDirector
- Ingmar BergmanWriter
- Erland von KochOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Inga LandgréNelly
- Stig OlinJack
- Marianne LöfgrenJenny
- Dagny LindIngeborg Johnson
- Allan BohlinUlf
- Ernst EklundEdvard
- Signe WirffJessie
- Svea HolstMalin
- Arne LindbladMayor
- Julia CæsarMayor's wife
- Margit AndeliusTown accountant's wife at the ball
- Mona Geijer-FalknerOlder woman on the train
Stills
Themes
piano lessonspsychoticfoster daughterabsurdmean spirited