Den Hemliga Vannen (1990)

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In this odd feature, played completely straight, a long-married middle-aged couple quietly arrange the apparent end of their relationship. The wife ties up her unresisting husband and feeds him poison, saying she's done with him. Then she leaves. It turns out that he hadn't taken the poison after all, he only pretended to. And he easily escapes his bonds. Then he calls up a friend, who comes over to commiserate with him. In order for the husband to explain exactly what happened, he needs for his friend to put on the absent wife's underwear, which he does. They do some role-playing. The friend isn't able to get into the feminine role very effectively, so the husband puts on female underwear too, and shows him how to do it. Then the seemingly murderous wife comes back with a man she has picked up, comes into the bedroom (to check on her husband's body?) and finds him and the friend alive, in her underwear, and as chipper as they can be. The new lover soon enters the room, and, to the wife's infinite disgust, is easily persuaded to don feminine underwear and join into the role-playing session underway. He is a psychiatrist. Maybe that explains it. The wife, disgusted, leaves again, perhaps for good. Meanwhile, the role-playing men consider the husband and wife relationship at some length and with startling insight. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

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Director(s):

Marie-Louise Ekman

Writer(s):

Marie-Louise Ekman

Producer(s):

Marie-Louise Ekman

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