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After having been away for 4 years without even staying in contact,
painter Harald returns to his family home, and brings with him his new
wife Karin. But while Mamma Lena welcomes her prodigal son with open arms,
her reception for Karin is lukewarm at best ... she even wants to conspire
with one of her daughters, Ingrid, to drive Karin into getting a divorce.
At first though, everything seems to work out just fine: Harald, who has
been suffering from depressions, sems like a changed man, and he even
starts painting again. (whcih he hasn't done for eight months), and he
gets on with Lena just fine, even though he has broken up with her 4 years
ago ... and this is where the problems start, because all of a sudden he
spends more and more time with his mother, neglecting his wife Karin more
and more.
Karin feels neglected enough that she even starts a short lesbian
affair with Ingrid ... and then she learns why Harald left years ago: he
had an incestuous affair with Ingrid, but when mamma found out, she threw
Ingrid out, not him - but he left on his own account anyhow.
Karin now starts to spy on her husband and his mum, and eventually she
even hides in his painting studio to see what's going on ... and she not
only finds out that Harald paints his mum in the nude, she also witnesses
them having sex. Still, she is not yet ready to just take him and
leave - as he at one point had even begged her to - or just leave on her
own. Eventually though, she persuades Ingrid to help her spy opn her
husband and Lena, to which Ingrid agrees after she hears what Karin has
witnessed, and so the two girls hide in the studio, to witness Harald
unveiling his (nude) painting of her to Lena - which hits Lena like a
shock, because he has painted a very distorted picture of his mother. As
he shrieks, he even starts strangling her, but Karin and Ingrid intervene
... and Karin now notices she has to take Harald away from his family, for
good.
Given its rather sensationalist subject matter and the fact that
director Joe Sarno was one of the softcore filmmakers of his time, The
Indelicate Balance is a very restrained drama, relying more on the
psychological undercurrents of his plot than on sexual situations (there
are only a handful short nude scenes in this film, in case you wondered).
So if you are looking for Sarno's typical erotica, go look somewhere else,
but as a psychological drama this film actually works, even if it is far
from perfect.
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