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Jan 8, 2015 · In both To Joy and Summer Interlude, Bergman was expressing something difficult to put in towards – something about the pure exquisiteness of life, itself – which provides a manifestation of what cinema can offer beyond the written word. And crucial to this cinematic presentation is the emotive expressiveness of his leading actress in both films, Maj-Britt Nilsson.
Jul 2, 2020 · The flipside to this: let me not suggest that Summer Interlude is a joyless slog. On the contrary, what moved no less than Jean-Luc Godard to declare in 1958 that it was one of the most beautiful films ever made is its pervasive summery warmth, its depiction of the excitement and unhesitating enthusiasm of teen romance with light, shimmering imagery and a pair of wonderfully airy performances by the leads.
Marie is a talented young ballerina. She meets Henrik, a wealthy college-boy one summer while staying at her uncles. They fall in love and spend their days focused recklessly on each other. As Autumn draws near an uneasy feeling creeps over Marie and turns her stomach sour. The morning of one of their last few days together Henrik makes a ...
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Feb 13, 2022 · It is easy to confuse Summer Interlude with the rest of Ingmar Bergman’s oeuvre- it is one of three of his works from the 1950s with “Summer” in the title. Opens with the Swan Lake ballet. Bergman uses a stark backdrop effectively displays his acumen for low and high angles. When Bergman is not shooting the ballet, ballet practice, or backstage at the ballet- this film largely uses exteriors. A trip to an island, a ferry, triggers a flashback to thirteen years before- youth, first love ...
Jan 1, 2000 · Summer Interlude. Possibly Ingmar Bergman's first great film, this is a tale of tragic young love and its repercussions. Ballerina Marie (the beautiful Maj-Britt Nilsson) and student Henrik ...
A film that the director considered a creative turning point, Summer Interlude is a reverie about life and death that unites Bergman's love of theater and cinema. Touching on many of the themes that would define the rest of his career-isolation, performance, the inescapability of the past- Ingmar Bergman's tenth film was a gentle drift toward true mastery.
