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Yes, yes, yes, this is my favourite early Bergman

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In Reply to: RE: Bergman's "Summer with Monika" - outrageously beautiful early masterpiece posted by Victor Khomenko on February 23, 2015 at 19:09:39

In fact, it's my second favourite Bergman of all time (just behind Fanny and Alexander). It's hypnotically beautiful, like a drowsy fever dream on a languid summer's day. The funny thing is that it was marketed in the USA as a lurid B pic (there is a hilarious trailer on the Criterion edition).

IMHO Bergman didn't make another movie as good as Summer With Monika until the late 1950s when he made The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries and The Virgin Spring.

There are very few movies that have the quality of Summer With Monika. Have you seen Sundays and Cybele? That comes close.

Follow Ups:

"Have you seen Sundays and Cybele?" No, but I just added it to the queue! nt - Victor Khomenko 06:03:28 02/24/15 (2)
- Winner of foreign film academy award in gee, was it 1961? Nt - geoffkait 10:52:13 02/24/15 (1)
  - We saw it, were not too taken with it. - Victor Khomenko 06:32:03 02/28/15 (0)