SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT - Ingmar Bergman's Cinema: A Centennial Retrospective

Showings

Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 3 Fri, Sep 21, 2018 8:50 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 3 Sat, Sep 22, 2018 1:50 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 3 Mon, Sep 24, 2018 8:00 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 3 Wed, Sep 26, 2018 4:00 PM

Description

SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT Sommarnattens leende

In Sweden at the turn of the century, members of the upper class and their servants find themselves in a
romantic tangle that they try to work out amidst jealousy and heartbreak.

After fifteen films that received mostly local acclaim, the 1955 comedy Smiles of a Summer Night at last ushered in an international audience for Bergman. In turn-of-the-century Sweden, four men and four women attempt to navigate the laws of attraction. During a weekend in the country, the women collude to force the men’s hands in matters of the heart, exposing their pretensions and insecurities along the way. Chock-full of flirtatious propositions and sharp witticisms delivered by such Swedish screen legends as Gunnar Björnstrand and Harriet Andersson, Smiles of a Summer Night is one of the cinema’s great erotic comedies. (Sweden, 1955, 108 min., NR, Swedish with English subtitles| Dir. Ingmar Bergman)

Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) stands as one of the giants of world cinema and perhaps the father of the flowering of art house movement in America during the 1960s and ’70s. This selection of some of his greatest works feature new digital restorations courtesy of Janus Films and the Swedish Film Institute.

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FANNY AND ALEXANDER 
   


  
THE SEVENTH SEAL 
 



WILD STRAWBERRIES

 


PERSONA
 



THE MAGIC FLUTE




CRIES AND WHISPERS