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1950 Certificate PG
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A sensitive, lyrical offering from Ingmar Bergman, SUMMER INTERLUDE deals with the innocence of first love and the transition from youth to adulthood, two of the director-screenwriter's favorite themes, and ones that he would revisit in later works. When Marie (Maj-Britt Nilsson), a prima ballerina, receives an old lover's .. Read more

Starring Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin, Annalisa Ericson
Director Ingmar Bergman
Genres Drama, World Cinema

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Summer Interlude

A sensitive, lyrical offering from Ingmar Bergman, SUMMER INTERLUDE deals with the innocence of first love and the transition from youth to adulthood, two of the director-screenwriter's favorite themes, and ones that he would revisit in later works. When Marie (Maj-Britt Nilsson), a prima ballerina, receives an old lover's diary after his death in a tragic accident, she begins to reminisce about the happy summer she spent with Henrik (Birger Malmsten), her first love, on an island near Stockholm. A flashback shows the young couple in a playful, carefree light, full of energy and grace. Since parting from Henrik, Maria has emerged as a sucessful dancer with many admirers. But she is dissatisfied with her present life and unable to forget the ardent love she experienced that one fateful summer long ago. Serious and bittersweet, this is a simple story told by a master filmmaker. The ballet company of the Stockholm Royal Opera can be seen performing excerpts from SWAN LAKE.

Starring Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin, Annalisa Ericson, Georg Funkquist
Director Ingmar Bergman
Studio PALISADES TARTAN
Run time DVD: 1 hr 31 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Genres Drama, World Cinema
Language DVD: Swedish
Subtitles DVD: English
Released DVD: 29 Mar 2004
Production year: 1950
Format DVD

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    This is the picture that established Ingmar Bergman's international reputation. Although it still deals with the theme of young love that dominated his earliest films, it contains the first inklings of the dramatic intensity and structural complexity that would characterise his more mature work. As the world-weary ballerina recalling her teenage affair with timid student Birger Malmsten, Maj-Britt Nilsson gives a performance of such sensitivity that one is at a loss to explain why Bergman dropped her from his stock company after Secrets of Women a couple of years later. Gunnar Fischer and Bengt Jarnmark's shimmering images of the sunny Swedish countryside further enhance this subtle, moving film.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006
  • 1 stars out of 4

    Melancholy romance quite typical of its creator but with less density of meaning than usual.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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    Rated - 5 stars

    A beautiful, emotional, joyful and heartbreaking movie. I loved this movie - though again it raises questions - as Bergman always aimed to do.

      • A customer from OLDHAM
      • Posted 03 Nov 2004 15:22

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