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Aro Recommended Smiles of a Summer Night

 

aka: Sommarnattens Leende
Sweden 1955, 108 minutes
Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Comedy / Romance

Topics: Mid-life, Period - 1900s.

 

Aroview: An enjoyable, ultimately serious comedy of deception set among the Swedish gentry of the early 20th century who are engaged in a poetic dance of love, marriage and sexual attraction.

Lovingly shot in B&W, this was remarkable in its day for the frankness for which it examined its subjects and it became the film which broke dir. Bergman to an international audience. Still worthy of attention now, it has a matchless grace and streak of bitterness which prevents any lurch into Hollywood falsity.

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