Bergman 100: A Summer Interlude

June 1–July 15, 2018

Our yearlong celebration of Ingmar Bergman’s cinema continues this summer, showcasing films that launched his international reputation in the 1950s.

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  • Wild Strawberries

  • Summer with Monika

  • Summer Interlude

  • Smiles of a Summer Night

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  • Past
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Past Films

  • Wild Strawberries

    Ingmar Bergman
    Sweden, 1957
    Friday, June 1 7 PM

    The film that cemented Bergman’s international reputation deftly interweaves memory, reality, and dream. As an elderly professor recollecting his life’s failures, “Victor Sjöström gives one of the greatest performances of cinema” (National Film Theatre, London).

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  • Ingmar Bergman at Work

    Wednesday, June 6 7 PM
    Illustrated Lecture by Jon Wengström

    Svenska Filminstitutet curator Jon Wengström shares films featuring Bergman as a director on set, offering insights into his working process and collaborations with actors.

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  • Summer Interlude

    Ingmar Bergman
    Sweden, 1951
    Saturday, June 9 6 PM

    A prima ballerina impulsively revisits the island of her youth and, in flashbacks, her first and only love. Bergman’s breakthrough film is a magical fusion of sunstruck elegiac love poem and dark suggestion.

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  • Summer with Monika

    Ingmar Bergman
    Sweden, 1953
    Thursday, June 14 7 PM

    Bergman naturalistically captures the sensuality and anguish of a youthful summer love affair in this acclaimed early work, which balances eroticism with bleak commentary.

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  • The Magic Flute

    Ingmar Bergman
    Sweden, 1975
    Saturday, June 16 4:30 PM

    This witty, loving adaptation of Mozart’s exuberant opera revels in its own theatricality, revealing the joy and wonder in Bergman’s metaphysics. “A blissful present, sensuous, luxuriant” (New Yorker).

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  • Dreams

    Ingmar Bergman
    Sweden, 1955
    Sunday, June 17 5 PM

    A fashion director (Eva Dahlbeck) and her top model (Harriet Andersson) grapple with relationships old and new in Bergman’s film that explores love as a function of reflection and projection.

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  • Smiles of a Summer Night

    Ingmar Bergman
    Sweden, 1955
    Saturday, June 23 6 PM

    Couples meet, split, and reconverge at a country house in the summer of 1900 in Bergman’s carnal comedy. “A tragic-comic chase and roundelay [carried] into elegance and lyric poetry” (Pauline Kael).

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  • Wild Strawberries

    Ingmar Bergman
    Sweden, 1957
    Wednesday, June 27 7 PM

    The film that cemented Bergman’s international reputation deftly interweaves memory, reality, and dream. As an elderly professor recollecting his life’s failures, “Victor Sjöström gives one of the greatest performances of cinema” (National Film Theatre, London).

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  • Port of Call

    Ingmar Bergman
    Sweden, 1948
    Thursday, July 5 7 PM

    This naturalistic city film about a young working-class girl presents the closest thing to overt social critique in Bergman’s oeuvre. An early collaboration with Gunnar Fischer, the great cinematographer who would work with Bergman throughout the 1950s.

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  • Secrets of Women

    Ingmar Bergman
    Sweden, 1952
    Wednesday, July 11 7 PM

    Scenes from several marriages emerge when five women gather to await the arrival of their respective husbands at an island summer house in this essential early Bergman work.

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  • Brink of Life

    Ingmar Bergman
    Sweden, 1958
    Sunday, July 15 5 PM

    In a maternity ward, three women await the blessed event with mixed attitudes, and fates. This film won awards at Cannes for Bergman and for his wonderful ensemble of actresses: Ingrid Thulin, Eva Dahlbeck, and Bibi Andersson.

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