Speed Cinema Screening: Summer Interlude 9/08/18 3 pm

Directed by Ingmar Bergman

Touching on many of the themes that would define the rest of his career—isolation, performance, and the inescapability of the past—Bergman’s tenth film was a gentle drift toward true mastery. Maj-Britt Nilsson beguiles as an accomplished ballet dancer haunted by her tragic youthful affair with a shy, handsome student (Birger Malmsten). Her memories of the sunny, rocky shores of Stockholm’s outer archipelago mingle with scenes from her dim present at the theater where she works. A film that the director considered a creative turning point, Summer Interlude is a reverie about life and death that unites Bergman’s love of theater and cinema. 1951, Sweden, in Swedish with English subtitles, 96 minutes. Recommended for 13+.

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