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Smiles of a Summer Night (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Ulla Jacobsson (Actor), Eva Dahlbeck (Actor), Ingmar Bergman (Director) Rated:
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Genre Comedy
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Contributor Ulla Jacobsson, Margit Carlquist, Harriet Andersson, Ingmar Bergman, Eva Dahlbeck, Gunnar Bjornstrand See more
Language Swedish
Runtime 1 hour and 48 minutes
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After fifteen films that received mostly local acclaim, the 1955 comedy Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende) at last ushered in an international audience for Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries). In turn-of-the-century Sweden, four men and four women of different classes attempt to navigate the laws of attraction. During a weekend in the country, the women collude to force the men’s hands in matters of the heart, exposing their pretensions and insecurities along the way. Chock-full of flirtatious propositions and sharp witticisms delivered by such Swedish screen legends as Gunnar Björnstrand (The Seventh Seal, Winter Light) and Harriet Andersson (Through a Glass Darkly, Cries and Whispers), Smiles of a Summer Night is one of cinema’s great erotic comedies.

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 4 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ CRRN2007BR
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Ingmar Bergman
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 48 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ May 3, 2011
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Margit Carlquist, Gunnar Bjornstrand
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Criterion Collection
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004NWPY3Y
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 97

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David Keymer
5.0 out of 5 stars A MAGICAL FILM
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2013
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Bergman, Ingmar. Smiles of a Summer Night. (1955) The Criterion Collection.
Gunnar Bjornstrand, Eva Dahlbeck, Ulla Jacobsson, Harriet Andersson, etc.

Here's a film that's fifty-eight years old now. It's shot entirely in black and white and has to be watched with subtitles, unless you're fluent in Swedish. To top it off, it's set in turn of the century Sweden, not the turn of this century but a century ago. Yet it brims with life, and is an absolute pleasure to watch.

It was crowned at Cannes in 1956 -Grand Prize for Best Comedy--and its success made Bergman as a director. Everyone in Sweden who was involved in films knew that Bergman was a genius but Sweden was a relatively insular community back then and all of Bergman's films had been too dark to win him an audience outside of his home country. His success at Cannes made Bergman a sellable commodity abroad and he used the leverage of his success to move on to a series of standout dramas. First was The Seventh Seal (1956). That was for most Americans the first movie seen of Bergman. It was after Seal and The Virgin Spring and Wild Strawberries that we noticed Bergman's earlier works.

Smiles of a Summer Night is a comedy. Comedy's not something one routinely associates with Bergman but actually, he's done a couple of good ones across his life as film director -The Devil's Eye in 1960 and his filming of Mozart's The Magic Flute in 1975. There is the often comic first half of Fanny and Alexander (1983). And when he does comedy, he does it as well as he does his more somber stuff. His eye for scenes is exquisite, he works well with actors (one of the best at this), and his comedies are at once playful, thoughtful and somewhere behind the laughter, elegiac and a little bit sad.

This movie is about a group of lovers and would-be lovers, mostly bourgeois, whose affections are ... elsewhere... than with their legitimate mates. Fredrik Egerman is late middle-aged and married to a nineteen-year-old child -they've been married fro two years and Anne's still virgin. Fredrik's son by his first marriage, Henrik, is studying to be a minister but lust for father's new wife is slowly but steadily beating out Martin Luther in his thoughts. Fredrik has a former mistress, an aging but still radiant stage actress named Desiree. Desiree's current is an army officer, Count Carl-Magnus. The Count's wife, Charlotte, is best friends with Anne. Fredrik, frustrated by his inability to consummate his marriage to his child-bride, goes out one night to see Desiree. He meets her at the theater, gores back to her apartment with her, but falls in a puddle and ends up dressed in a frilly nightshirt and a robe -both garments are the Count's. The Count shows up and the Great Dance begins: Fredrik and Anne and Henrik and Desiree and Carl-Magnus and Charlotte, until all end up with the mates they should have had in the beginning, and with the kinds of love they can tolerate. Around this dance is another, of the maid Petra and her lover, the coachman Frid, which is conducted with no reserve at all and a great deal more apparent pleasure. The contrast between the earthy Petra and Frid and their enervated and confused masters is a motif of the film.

There's a good deal of the feeling though not the storyline of A Midsummer's Night Dream in here and when you watch Woody Allen's homage to Bergman, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, you'll recognize affinities.

What are the pleasures of this extraordinary movie? A sophisticated and civilized plot line that doesn't detract at all from the comedy. A steady pacing that allows you to savor each scene as it unfolds and doesn't try to shove it in your face as too many movies, especially comedies, do nowadays. Superb acting by an ensemble that even at that early stage in his career was shaping up as Bergman's film family. Bjornstrand and Dahlbeck especially deserve praise. The filming: in one of the two interviews that are packaged along with the film, a critic comments on the masterful use of light in the film -the dappling in the forest scenes, the flood of white in sky and field -he says that no movie has ever used white so well as this one. The sheer intelligence of the film. The dialogue, for instance, is so good --funny, revealing....

I haven't talked about the three smiles of the summer night. See the movie for those.
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Donato
5.0 out of 5 stars SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT: the lighter side of Ingmar Bergman
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2004
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I came to Ingmar Bergman films in the mid-sixties, as a teen, and liked them because they seemed so stark, so unlike the typical Hollywood fluff. They called 'em art films, but I liked Bergman because of the characters and the stories, not to mention the look and feel of his films. It was only when Criterion Collection released SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT this year that I finally got to see a film I had heard a lot about but never bothered to seek out. Criterion's other Bergman films were all must-haves so I ordered Smiles right away. (I have seen Sondheim's A Little Night Music on stage some three times and saw the film, so I suppose this Bergman source film seemed less unknown than his others. And, by the way, after seeing Smiles, I appreciate even more how nicely Sondheim et al adapted this film.) True to Criterion's high standards and TLC in presenting its films, Smiles looks as good as it must have when it was released almost fifty years ago. This light comedy involves several pairs of lovers who, for a variety of reasons, might be better off if the deck were shuffled and they ended up in another pairing. Aging actress, married lover; aging lawyer, too-young virgin wife; tortured soul son of lawyer, saucy maid temptress, and lawyer's too-young virgin wife; wife of military man who knows husband has mistresses, including the aging actress. Shuffle the deck a few times and a lot can happen in a movie with characters such as these. Sondheim wrote the entire score to A Little Night Music in waltz tempo, which perfectly captures the whirling intricacies of the relationships. Bergman started it all with a very entertaining and perfectly cast film, full of both comedy and the human dimension of mismatched people who may be investing too much energy in the wrong person. It all sounds confusing, but, trust me, you'll enjoy the heck out of this picture. If you think Bergman is just The Silence, Cries and Whispers and Winter Light, you're in for a real treat with SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT.
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evangelina hurtado de mendoza
5.0 out of 5 stars ingar bergman y su escencia.
Reviewed in Mexico on January 21, 2021
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si antigua, de la época de ingar bergman, pero llena de picardia, sensualidad , qu eme parece que muestra la personalidad de bergman, no en vano cohabitó oficialmente con 4 mujeres, no se si fueron sus esposas, pero recuerdo a liv ullman, bibi anderson, etc .No importa que sea haya filmado en los 50s, que ocurra en el siglo X1Xla, el ser humano se comporta en la misma forma, la sexualidad es la misma. magnificamente desarrollada actuada. Vale la pena verla.
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Richard Bucknall
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Swedish Smiles
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 21, 2014
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One of those productions where everything comes together in a perfect unity: concept, script, screenplay, camera work, direction, acting, editing all reach the highest level simultaneously. There are sequences of exquisite frames where brilliant dialogue is delivered with supreme professional competence. The theatrical atmosphere is sustained by the expert choices of costume and props. If you like your philosophy with humanity, your humanity with wit, and your wit with technical excellence, it would be hard to find a better film.

This DVD brings us the Master at work with amazing quality of sight and sound and well managed sub-titles.
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5.0 out of 5 stars However I'm glad to have a copy
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 18, 2018
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It's an interesting movie which I can never make up my mind about. However I'm glad to have a copy, and I enjoy its unusual qualities as a film. The DVD works perfectly.
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Linda Johansson
5.0 out of 5 stars THE BEST romantic comedy
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 10, 2015
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Wish Bergman would have made more comedies! This is one of the best romantic comedies there is!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Feeling guilty for not "getting it" the first time.
Reviewed in Canada on September 2, 2017
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I just watched this film, a rare comedy from Ingmar Bergman, and it didn't wow me like his other, more serious, masterpieces.
It's very stage bound, like a live play, which is no doubt intentional, considering one of the leads plays a stage actress.
The outdoor scenes, however, are a nice pick-me-up and are nicely shot by Gunnar Fischer, Bergman's cameraman before Sven Nykvist.
The two essays in the DVD package expound upon the film's greatness, and after reading them and watching the film a second time, I'm sure I will give the film the 5 star rating it probably deserves.
This review is just my initial reaction, subject to change.
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