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
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Summer with Monika
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Summer Interlude
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Smiles of a Summer Night
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Past Films
Wild Strawberries
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1957Friday, June 1 7 PMView DetailsThe 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).
Ingmar Bergman at Work
Wednesday, June 6 7 PMIllustrated Lecture by Jon WengströmView DetailsSvenska Filminstitutet curator Jon Wengström shares films featuring Bergman as a director on set, offering insights into his working process and collaborations with actors.
Summer Interlude
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1951Saturday, June 9 6 PMView DetailsA 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.
Summer with Monika
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1953Thursday, June 14 7 PMView DetailsBergman naturalistically captures the sensuality and anguish of a youthful summer love affair in this acclaimed early work, which balances eroticism with bleak commentary.
The Magic Flute
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1975Saturday, June 16 4:30 PMView DetailsThis 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).
Dreams
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1955Sunday, June 17 5 PMView DetailsA 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.
Smiles of a Summer Night
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1955Saturday, June 23 6 PMView DetailsCouples 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).
Wild Strawberries
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1957Wednesday, June 27 7 PMView DetailsThe 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).
Port of Call
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1948Thursday, July 5 7 PMView DetailsThis 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.
Secrets of Women
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1952Wednesday, July 11 7 PMView DetailsScenes 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.
Brink of Life
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1958Sunday, July 15 5 PMView DetailsIn 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.