Secrets of Women  [VHS]
Bergman takes an uncharacteristically lighthearted look at marital infidelity inSecrets of Women, a sophisticated comedy that was his first commercial success.  While waiting in a country house for their husbands to arrive, three sisters-in-law share the intimate secrets of their marriages and affairs.  A fourth sister-in-law declares mysteriously that she has no story to tell.  Told in flashbacks, and entirely from the women's point of view, the three episodes build from straightforward realism to a colorful, dreamlike expressionism.  Bergman's fascinating illumination of the ironies of life and love culminates in the famous scene in which a bored husband and wife (Bergman favorites Gunnar Bjornstrand and Eva Dahlbeck) rediscover their lost ardor while trapped in an elevator.