Sommarlek is a simple little film of the great director ingmar bergman in the beginning of his successful career. Regarded by many as one of the three or four most brilliant directors of the 20th century, ingmar bergman radically altered the nature and meaning of the motionpicture form, transfiguring a medium long devoted to spectacle into an art capable of profoundly personal meditations into the myriad struggles facing the psyche and the soul. Majbritt nilsson beguiles as an accomplished ballet dancer haunted by her. A film that the director considered a creative turning point, summer interlude is a reverie about life and death. Sommarlek, originally titled illicit interlude in the united states, is a 1951 swedish drama film cowritten and directed by ingmar. The complete silence of god trilogy is also here, beginning with. The new york times wrote the ending leaves us with the conviction that james stewart is a sincere and likable triplethreat man in the mgm backfield and variety called his. Like many of his best works, filmmaker douglas sirks interlude is a remake of an earlier universal soap opera. Ingmar bergman biography, movie highlights and photos. The heroine, marie majbritt nilsson, spends a summer with her possessive uncle. A dancer, marie majbritt nilsson, who is at the height and thus foresees the end of her powers as a prima ballerina, under the dreamlike pull of memory impulsively revisits the island of her youth and, in flashbacks, her first and only love. In st louis, there were 30,000 room air conditioners at the beginning of the summer and it was expected that by the end of the summer there would be 50,000 room ac units.
I, at any rate, get a feeling like this from his 1952 picture summer with monika. Summer interlude, on the other hand, has been described by the director as the film most dear to his heart. Hon dansade en sommar arne mattsson, 1951 subtitle. Ingmar bergmans cinema, criterions 39film box set, as seen. But it was bergmans 1953 feature, summer with monika, his 12th film in eight years, that signaled the first pivotal shift of his career, at least in retrospect.
Sommarlek summerplay illicit interlude summer interlude. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing summer interlude near you. Strange interlude is an experimental play in nine acts by american playwright eugene oneill. The criterion collection announces 39film ingmar bergman. First this film now is viewable at you tube by the courtesy of timi yuro friends, many thanks to them. Befitting its title, summer interlude represents a moment of transition in the career of ingmar bergman. A seasonal time warp dropped me into a brief summer idyll last week. Whats the story three years before the maysles landmark documentary grey gardens introduced the world to edith and edie bealethe unforgettable motherdaughter and jackie o. Oneill began work on it as early as 1923 and developed its scenario in 1925. When the film was released in the united states in 1954 its distributor spliced in unrelated scenes of. Cbs news many critics consider 1982 the best summer ever for movies. Ooh, baby, yeah days in the sun and nights in the rain summer is over, simple and plain found me some fun thats good for the pain already told you, i don. To joy, 1951s summer interlude, 1953s summer with monika, 1954s a lesson in. A lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years prior during a brief summer vacation.
Ive had a lot of hiatuses, and this ongoing story of mine has been going on for several years at this point. The films sets were designed by the art directors kurt herlth and robert herlth. Her memories of the sunny, rocky shores of stockholms outer archipelago mingle with scenes from her gloomy present at the theater where she performs. With the box set ingmar bergmans cinema, releasing this november, the criterion collection is celebrating the directors film work with a selection of thirtynine of his features, including his directorial debut, crisis 1946, and his farewell, saraband 2003, completed three and a half years before his death, on july 30, 2007, at the. A film that the director considered a creative turning point, summer interlude is a. I n 1971, ingmar bergman had just completed his first englishlanguage film, the touch. As in to joy, the concerns expressed in summer interlude are not just about romantic love, but about who we are and what we ultimately find. To mark its 30th anniversary, the alamo drafthouse cinema in austin, texas, will. Film forums retrospective marking the centennial of the swedish auteurs birth. Its in my signature, though bear in mind the story has a lot of entries, and it can be hard to fully follow.
When the film was released in the united states in 1954 its distributor spliced in unrelated scenes of bathing that were filmed at a. Despite having all the hallmarks of the great ones produced by ross hunter, made for universal in the 50s and being unashamedly and inimitably a melodrama, interlude is perhaps the most strangely overlooked film of sirks career, which doesnt come up even as second or third tier when looking at the. Overview of interlude, 1957, directed by douglas sirk, with june allyson, rossano brazzi, marianne cook, at turner classic movies. Now there are some bangers on there yes but sometimes i listen to the samples on those songs more than the actual song itself.
Imdb has rabbits moon by kenneth anger as a 1950 film, even though it wasnt completed with rock and roll songs that actually complement the film until the 70s. When the film was released in the united states in 1954 its distributor spliced in unrelated scenes of bathing that were filmed at a nudist colony in long island. Here are my favorites and why, with some suggestions of whats good in their catalog an asterisk marks my current favorite. Summer interlude was finally premiered on 1 october 1951 at the roda kvarn cinema in stockholm. In this case, sirks source material is the 1939 irene dunnecharles boyer vehicle. John cleese has one of his first film roles as a supercilious pr man and derek jacobi plays paul in what was only his second feature film role. Everything you need to know about that summer movie. A life at stake is a 1954 american film noir directed by paul guilfoyle. Get the latest summer movie news and find everything you need to know about upcoming summer movie releases at fandangos summer movies guide. Sometimes bergman is in complete control of his material as when the. Summer interlude 1954, classic musical romantic released in english language in theatre near you in. New highdefinition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the bluray edition. You can skip western road flows, faithful, summers over interlude, and they just threw hotline bling on there.
This time on the podcast, scott is joined by david blakeslee, trevor berrett, and arik devens to discuss ingmar bergmans summer interlude. Summer interlude is an early bergman from 1951, and is a particularly fresh film from a director one associates with anguish and suffering, largely. The criterion collection has done an impressive work in restoring the film to an almost pristine state. Summer interlude 1951 letterboxd your life in film. Interlude is a 1968 british drama film directed by kevin billington.
A pivotal film in ingmar bergmans oeuvre, sommarlek marked his maturation as a. Sommarlek summerplay illicit interlude summer interlude 1951. Hon dansade en sommar she danced for a summer is a 1951 swedish film by director arne mattsson, based on the 1949 novel sommardansen the summer dance by per. Summer interlude is another one of ingmar bergmans early great films. Feature film, feature film productions ingmar bergman.
These included summer interlude 1951, waiting women 1952 and summer with monika 1953, but in that same year, 1953, he made his first period drama, sawdust and tinsel, which was in a. Touching on many of the themes that would define the rest of his legendary careerisolation, performance, the inescapability of the pastingmar bergmans tenth film was a gentle drift toward true mastery. The auteur theory of cinema doesnt encompass everything how else to account for great stuff like freeway or the hidden. Berlinale to highlight ingmar bergman with film retrospective. To optimize your experience with your screen reading software, please use our website, which has the same tickets as our fandango. Claytons the bespoke overcoat, bergmans summer interlude, and indeed anything by fuller. Ingmar bergman simply traces in clean, poetric terms the dancers vivid recollections of a wonderful summer she spent in the home. I was delighted however, to find that the even earlier summer interlude to be a strong film. The little girl with the big voice, timi yuro was americas finest white soul singer of the 1960s. Drake summers over interlude by octobersveryown free. Her millionselling debut single, hurt, introduced a performer of such profound poignancy and depth that many listeners assumed she was a man, an africanamerican, or both, and while yuro never again achieved the same commercial heights, her finest records deserve mention in the same breath. Summer interlude 1951 posters the movie database tmdb. In the day and a half it took me to drive nearly halfway across the lower u. It starred elliott gould as an american archaeologist in.
By signing up for an account on tmdb, you can post directly to twitter and facebook. In hindsight, summer interlude looks and feels like a number of bergmans subsequent and arguably greater films, but at the time, it must have seemed like something entirely new. This movie tells the story of tragic young love and its recourse. B3 impacts of the 1954 summer heat wave nancy westcott. On the heels of ingmar bergmans 1955 romantic lark, smiles of a summer night a triumph at the cannes film festival, the seventh seal 1957 may be the film that certified his international prominence. X x x x x i wonder will kdf invest in a cryo division as might. Not that these are absent here, but they are outweighed by the fact the emphasis is so much on a summer of love between a. An article about the criterion collections 39film box set, ingmar. Sommarlek all summer long summer interlude by ingmar bergman majbritt nilsson, birger malmsten, alf kjellin, sweden 195051, in swedish. Majbritt nilsson and birger malmsten in ingmar bergmans summer interlude 1951 courtesy film forum.
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