Summer with Monika
An early Ingmar Bergman-directed melodrama about a trusting, perplexed young storeroom clerk (Lars Ekborg), whose summer interlude with the aggressive Monika (Harriet Anderson) turns out to be much less idyllic than expected. This did much to establish the reputation of Swedish cinema, and perhaps Swedish women in general, as leading the vanguard in sexual liberation. While subsequent generations will look at the film and wonder whatever the fuss was about, it retains a vivid and frolicsome sensuality, before submitting to the inevitable, Bergmanesque bleakness. Visually ravishing, this film would have a deep impact on French New Wave cinema.
Year: 1952
Genre: Foreign Language Films, Scandinavian Cinema
Country: Sweden
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg
Duration: 92 Minutes
Rating: PG - Adult themes.
Subtitles: Yes
7.6/10
Location in store: Foreign (Scandinavia)
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