The Touch (1971) review

Archeologist David (Elliott Gould) is doing work at an old church in Sweden when he has an encounter with grieving housewife Karin (Bibi Andersson) at the hospital where her mother recently died - Karin invites David to have dinner with her physician husband Andreas (Max von Sydow) and then they have a "love affair," except David has severe emotional problems which are largely due to being a Holocaust survivor.  As Bergman's first English-language film, this wasn't well-received upon release, and a major part of that is because cocksure Gould doesn't quite fit the key role he's been assigned and his tantrums make many of his scenes with Andersson uncomfortable to watch.  Although it's initially unclear what draws her character away from mild-mannered Andreas and her children and ruins not only her "stable existence" but her reputation as well, it's really about two terribly wounded people "uniting" over their instability ... and finding out they are in this hellish 'middle ground' where they can't be together and cannot separate entirely.