Ingmar Bergman presents the battle of the sexes as a ramshackle, grotesque carnival in Sawdust and Tinsel, one of the late master’s most vivid early works. The story of the charged relationship between a turn-of-the-century traveling circus owner (Åke Grönberg) and his performer girlfriend (Harriet Andersson), the film features dreamlike detours and twisted psychosexual power plays that presage the director’s Smiles of a Summer Night and The Seventh Seal, works that would soon change the landscape of art cinema forever.

Exploring the complicated and often brutal relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife, and his lover, the film highlights themes of humiliation, human cruelty, the battle of the sexes, and the struggle for dignity in a life of poverty and emotional strain.

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