Alternate title(s):
Foreign Title: Sommarlek
Date: January 01, 1951 to December 31, 1951
Dates Note: 1951
Country of Origin:
Sweden
Place of Origin: Sweden
Languages:
Swedish
Color: B&W
Silent: No
Based On: A story by Bergman
Additional Info:
A dancer, Marie (Maj-Britt 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. Bergman’s breakthrough masterpiece is an almost magical fusion of sunstruck elegiac love poem and dark suggestion. The latter looks ahead to The Seventh Seal and its games with death; and to Sawdust and Tinsel in its depiction of a performer struggling to see her life clearly through a mirror of humiliation. But Marie, an early Bergman heroine suffused (like the film itself) with music and dance, finally will have none of that.
A dancer, Marie (Maj-Britt 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. Bergman’s breakthrough masterpiece is an almost magical fusion of sunstruck elegiac love poem and dark suggestion. The latter looks ahead to The Seventh Seal and its games with death; and to Sawdust and Tinsel in its depiction of a performer struggling to see her life clearly through a mirror of humiliation. But Marie, an early Bergman heroine suffused (like the film itself) with music and dance, finally will have none of that.