In a small Swedish town, physician Andreas Vergerus and his wife Karin Vergarus have a loving yet somewhat pedestrian fifteen year marriage which has spawned two now early teen children. They befriend visiting Jewish-American archaeologist David Kovac who is working on a dig of an old church site. Admitting to her that he fell in love with her the first time he laid eyes on her at the hospital on the day that her mother passed away, Karin easily succumbs to David's advances, ... (Full plot summary below)
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In a small Swedish town, physician Andreas Vergerus and his wife Karin Vergarus have a loving yet somewhat pedestrian fifteen year marriage which has spawned two now early teen children. They befriend visiting Jewish-American archaeologist David Kovac who is working on a dig of an old church site. Admitting to her that he fell in love with her the first time he laid eyes on her at the hospital on the day that her mother passed away, Karin easily succumbs to David's advances, she never having cheated on Andreas before. Although David transforms, having a passive-aggressive nature in their relationship including bouts of physical violence against her, Karin ends up falling in what she believes is love with David in he representing what is missing with Andreas, while she still remains loyal to Andreas and their marriage. Andreas is aware of something concerning David which may provide some answers as to David's behavior toward Karin, which become a little more clear when Karin meets Sara.
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| Little White LiesDavid JenkinsEffortlessly brilliant, even if its central drama starts to feel oppressive in its latter stages. |
| Irish TimesTara BradyThe moral of the story is that lesser Bergman still beats the pants of everything else. And The Touch is not, as we have been led to believe, lesser Bergman. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawWhat red-blooded passion there is in The Touch: a film about grownups for grownups. |
| Independent (UK)Geoffrey MacnabThe film has its idiosyncrasies and obvious weaknesses but is frank and utterly relentless in the way it probes into the emotional lives of its three main characters. |
| Cleveland PressTony MastroianniThe Touch is pure soap opera. It is not even good soap opera for it is mawkish, banal and dull. |
| Total FilmJames MottramA surgical dissection of a volatile affair, between free-spirited archaeologist Elliott Gould and married woman Bibi Andersson, it's an unsettling, sometimes ugly experience. |
| Daily Express (UK)Allan HunterA jagged, mournful tale in which love makes fools of everyone. |
| Sunday Times (UK)Tom ShoneIt's B-grade Bergman, to be sure... Yet Sven Nykvist's unusually busy images are edited with a surgeon's swiftness, and Andersson gives us a beautifully peeled performance. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertNot only a disappointment but an unexpected failure of tone from a director to whom tone has usually been second nature. |
| New York TimesVincent CanbyAlthough it is often oblique, the drama is without mystery, and sometimes ridiculously blunt. |
