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Smiles Of A Summer Night [1955] [1995]
 
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Smiles Of A Summer Night [1955] [1995]
DVD ~ Ulla Jacobsson
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Product details
  • Actors: Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Margit Carlqvist, Gunnar Björnstrand
  • Directors: Ingmar Bergman
  • Format: Black & White, PAL
  • Language Swedish
  • Region: All Regions
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Tartan Video
  • DVD Release Date: 24 Sep 2001
  • Run Time: 104 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  (7 customer reviews)
  • DVD Features:
    • Main Language: Swedish
    • Available Audio Tracks: Dolby Digital 2.0
    • Trailers - 1. Trailer Gallery - The Bergman Collection
    • Scene Access
    • Production Notes
    • Filmographies - 1. Ingmar Bergman - Director
    • 2. Cast
  • ASIN: B00005MKXC
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 27,026 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The film which established its Swedish writer/director on the stage of world cinema, 1956's Smiles of a Summer Night is what some people would consider a contradiction in terms--an Ingmar Bergman comedy. Set in the 19th century, Smiles features Bergman stalwart Gunner Bjornstrand as Fredrik, a lawyer yet to consummate his marriage to his young wife Anne. He has hankerings after a former mistress, the voluptuous actress Desiree, who is now mistress to the bellicose Count Malcolm, whose own wife attempts to seduce Fredrik in order to make Malcolm jealous. Fredrik's wife, meanwhile, hankers after her own stepson, an austere young man confused by his repressed sexual longings. This web of romantic intrigue is eventually disentangled at a weekend party held by Desiree's mother, a formidably acerbic, fairy godmother-style figure.

Smiles of a Summer Night is sparkling but mordant, stronger on absurdism than belly laughs and it is lent shade by the long shadows of existential angst. It conveys all of Bergman's core messages about human relationships but in a light, operatic bundle of cinematic joy.

On the DVD: Presented in the original academy ratio, the film is restored here to its original, silvery glory. There are extensive notes from Bergman's memoirs, in which he talks candidly about the near-suicidal depression he was in when he wrote this ironically light script, as well as additional notes from critic Derek Malcolm, who aptly compares the film to a Mozart opera and Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game. --David Stubbs

Special Features
Swedish
Region 0


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