Smiles of a Summer Night

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Original title: Sommarnattens leende.
Previously released in 1955 as a motion picture by Svensk Filmindustri; copyrighted in 1957 by Rank Film Distributors of America, Inc.
From the Janus Films Collection.
Ulla Jacobsson, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand.
Eight characters become four couples while vacationing at a country estate.
DVD ; Full screen.

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Send in the Clowns submitted by amy on August 29, 2019, 7:47pm There are three smiles in Ingmar Bergman's classic comedy - love, loss, and redemption - and each of us, if we're lucky enough, will recognize ourselves in one after the other. Stephen Sondheim and Woody Allen would thoroughly agree.

A very nice pleasant little movie with lots of well-written gems in the script. It has survived the test of time. CLASSIC. submitted by Tassos on November 27, 2022, 7:39am Another one of Bergman's movies I liked. Not as stellar as my favorite ("Wild Strawberries of 1957), but pretty good.

Bergman himself did not believe it was such a big success. In the supplement he said how much $ it brought to Svenskfilmindustrie, an outfit he made fun of later, when they submitted the movie to Cannes, and when it got prizes, the above outfit felt like a neglected old lady with no prospects that is suddenly... courted by all kinds of eligible bachelors!