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Smiles of a Summer Night
Sommarnattens Leende
Bergman’s acerbic comedy brings together several couples at a country house in 1900 for a roundelay of sexual intrigue and discovery.
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Director
Ingmar Bergman
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With
Eva Dahlbeck, Ulla Jacobsson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Jarl Kulle, Harriet Andersson
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Sweden 1955. 109min
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Digital
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Certificate
12A
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English subtitles
Ingmar Bergman’s first international success, this brings together a number of couples, would-be couples and ex-couples for a weekend at a country house in 1900, and observes their deceits, delusions and disappointments as they interact in amorous intrigue. Acerbically witty – especially in debunking the men– yet compassionate, it was much admired by Truffaut, who considered Bergman an exemplary auteur and ‘a born moviemaker’.
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