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David read Henrik's diary and then open up to him about her past experiences in order to explain her conflicted feelings and emotional coldness. After he has left, she removes her make up and as she does so regains some of her lost youth and innocence, smiling again and pulling faces in the mirror. The film concludes during the successful first performance of the ballet where Marie meets in the wings David, who is now more understanding of Marie's past. She happily kisses him and returns to the stage to finish the ballet.
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with Marie, takes her away for the winter and helps her to "put up a wall" to lessen the pain of losing her lover and effectively closes her off emotionally. While visiting Erland's house she discovers that it was he who sent the diary to her at the theatre; he has had it ever since the day at the hospital when Henrik died from his injuries. She expresses regret and disgust that she ever allowed Erland to touch her, suggesting that he took advantage of her grief and they had an affair following Henrik's death.
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rated the film 4 out of 5 stars, highlighting Maj-Britt Nilsson's performance and the cinematography. He wrote that it "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
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she is unexpectedly sent the diary of her first love, Henrik (Malmsten), a college boy whom she met and fell in love with while visiting her Aunt Elizabeth and Uncle Erland's house on a summer vacation thirteen years ago. With the cancellation of the dress rehearsal until the evening, Marie takes a
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Following the evening dress rehearsal, Marie talks with the ballet master, who recognises her single-minded devotion to her dancing and understands her problems, and then to her current lover, a journalist called David, with whom she seems to be in the process of breaking up. Marie decides to let
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Three days before the end of that summer 13 years ago, when Henrik is to return to college and Marie to the theatre, Henrik is severely injured after diving from a cliff face and dies. Her Uncle Erland, not actually her relation but a friend and admirer of Marie's mother and now similarly smitten
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Bergman found his style in this film, and it is regarded by cinema historians not only as his breakthrough but also as the beginning of 'a new, great epoch in Swedish films.' Many of the themes (whatever one thinks of them) that Bergman later expanded are here: the artists who have lost their
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described the filmmaking method as "miraculous", writing that Bergman "belongs to a handful here and there in the world who are now discovering the future articulation of film, and the result can be revolutionary."
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identities, the faces that have become masks, the mirrors that reflect death at work. But this movie, with its rapturous yet ruined love affair, also has a lighter side: an elegiac grace and sweetness.
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Marie (Nilsson) is a successful but emotionally distant prima ballerina in her late twenties. During a problem-filled dress rehearsal day for a production of the ballet
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boat across to the island where she met Henrik and remembers their playful and carefree relationship.
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dramatic intensity and structural complexity that would characterise his more mature work."
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as a primary location. The animated sequence was made by
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The film was shot between 3 April and 18 June 1950 with
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Summer Interlude: Love and Death in the Swedish Summer
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received positive reviews by critics. A reviewer from
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Index


Ingmar Bergman
Herbert Grevenius
Allan Ekelund
Maj-Britt Nilsson
Birger Malmsten
Gunnar Fischer
Oscar Rosander
Erik Nordgren
SEK
Swedish
drama film
Ingmar Bergman
Swan Lake
Maj-Britt Nilsson
Birger Malmsten
Alf Kjellin
Annalisa Ericson
Georg Funkquist
Stig Olin
Mimi Pollak
Renée Björling
Gunnar Olsson
Dalarö
Rune Andréasson
Bamse
Variety
pen name
Filmjournalen
Jean-Luc Godard

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