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- Bergman found a high style within a set of boudoir farce conventions: in Smiles of a Summer Night, boudoir farce becomes lyric poetry. The sexual chases and the round dance are romantic, nostalgic; the coy bits of feminine plotting are gossamer threads of intrigue.
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Smiles of a Summer Night (Swedish: Sommarnattens leende) is a 1955 Swedish comedy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It was shown at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival . [1] In 2005, Time magazine ranked it as one of the 100 greatest films since 1923.
May 3, 2011 · Bergman found a high style within a set of boudoir farce conventions: in Smiles of a Summer Night, boudoir farce becomes lyric poetry. The sexual chases and the round dance are romantic, nostalgic; the coy bits of feminine plotting are gossamer threads of intrigue.
Jul 11, 2014 · Smiles of a Summer Night is best classified as a Comedy of Manners, a member of that sexually licentious genre full of playful, flirtatious give-and-take, double-entendres, double-crossing, slapstick, and class-consciousness.
After fifteen films that received mostly local acclaim, the comedy Smiles of a Summer Night at last ushered in an international audience for Ingmar Bergman. In turn-of-the-century Sweden, four men and four women attempt to navigate the laws of attraction.
- Anne Egerman
Edit page. Smiles of a Summer Night: Directed by Ingmar Bergman. With Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Margit Carlqvist. In Sweden at the turn of the century, members of the upper class and their servants find themselves in a romantic tangle that they try to work out amidst jealousy and heartbreak.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Ingmar Bergman
- 1957-12-23
Jan 31, 2012 · Both of them appreciated Bergman's lifelong custom of directing opera and theater every winter, while meanwhile writing a new screenplay he would start filming every spring. The diffused light of the long evenings provides the characteristic visual clarity of many of Bergman's scenes. Pauline Kael called this a nearly perfect film.
Mar 30, 2022 · Though not often remembered amongst his best films overall, Smiles of a Summer Night is often cited (along with pieces of Fanny and Alexander) as his greatest success in comedy. This is sophisticated philandering and wordplay- a comedy of the bedroom, lovers, mistresses and sex.
