Released in 1953,Summer with Monika, an early Ingmar Bergman-directed melodrama, did much ... more
to establish the reputation of Swedish cinema, and perhaps Swedish women in general, as leading the vanguard in sexual liberation. The film attracted the wrath of...
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Released in 1953,Summer with Monika, an early Ingmar Bergman-directed melodrama, did much ... more
to establish the reputation of Swedish cinema, and perhaps Swedish women in general, as leading the vanguard in sexual liberation. The film attracted the wrath of...
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Summer with Monika belongs to Bergman's middle period when he was primarily concerned with ... more
the trials and tribulations of adolescence and the problems of young love.A chance meeting in a coffee shop between Harry (Ekborg), a young errand boy, and Monik...
Released in 1953,Summer with Monika, an early Ingmar Bergman-directed melodrama, did much ... more
to establish the reputation of Swedish cinema, and perhaps Swedish women in general, as leading the vanguard in sexual liberation. The film attracted the wrath of the censors and one scene of lovemaking had to be cut. 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.The film tells the story of a young couple, Harry (Lars Ekborg) and Monika (18-year-old Harriet Andersson, with whom Bergman would fall in love) stuck in lousy jobs in Stockholm. Harry is beset by parental responsibility--his mother died young and his father is ill--while Monika is fed up with her drunken, violent father. They escape in a motorboat and to spend a blissful summer on an island in the archipelago. Once Monika gets pregnant and they're forced to steal food, however, the idyll concludes and they return to Stockholm, where the relationship disintegrates. You realise that Monika, from a largeand fractious family, yearns for escapism, while Harry, who has never known true family life, longs for domestic stability. It is he who is left holding the baby. But Bergman does not quite condemn Monika, giving her one of his best scenes: in a cafe, estranged from Harry, chatting up a stranger, she stares unwaveringly and directly to camera, as if defying us to judge her. Visually ravishing, this film would have a deep impact on French New Wave cinema.On the DVD:Summer with Monikaon disc offers a fine restoration of the original film, and includes notes from Phillip Strick who points out that the film is in part hymn of praise to Stockholm's beauty and was influenced by the documentary "City Symphonies" made during World War II. --David Stubbs
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Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
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Advantages: Hilarious laugh out loud comedy - when you understand it Disadvantages: This will probably be the only series
played all three of the leading characters. This, coupled with that feeling many of you remember when you first saw The Office and hadn?t heard of Ricky Gervais ? namely one where it looks like a legitimate documentary style programme watching normal characters, but they can?t be real can they? Something wasn?t quite right, but we weren?t sure what... As we eventually clicked and realised what was going on, it was impossible not to get sucked in for the rest of the night. When they re-ran the series again watching just one episode at a time was never enough. As a result, Santa knew what to do and bought me the DVD last Christmas.
The series is written, and the three main characters are played by Chris Lilley, an Australian comedian. He had previously written another spoof documentary ?We Can Be Heroes?, which followed the run up to ...
Advantages: Original script.Fantastic performances.entertaining and charming Disadvantages: Not for average rom-com lovers
I have been waiting for this since I saw its trailer after it has gone to several film festivals.Being a lover of lovey dovey films, i was sure i won't be let down by this film! Though i must say,it turned out to be more than what i expected-a rather honest depiction of today's romance. Gone are the days when a boy meets girl,fall in love,get married and live happily ever after.
The narrator warns us in his funny voice that this is not a love story and it actually is much more than that. I loved the way the film progresses,the director chose to make it interesting by showing us the days in the bracket,1 being the day he first met her.The film doesn't move chronologically but is rather random,jumbling from forward to backward at times.
Summer is the new assitant of Tom's boss and he likes her from the first day.Its a modern take ...
Advantages: A film of rare beauty; by turns humane, perverse and tender Disadvantages: None
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter? and Spring is possibly one of the most beautiful films you are ever likely to see. That I had to say first.
The director, Kim Ki-Duk, is perhaps one of South Korea's most prolific, occasionally controversial (see Bad Guy and The Isle to understand why), filmmakers working today. Allegedly, Kim Ki-Duk though an art student, never saw a film until he was thirty. Now whether this means he never critically watched films prior to his thirties, had literally never seen a whole film or if he is attempting to create a mythology for himself much like Hitchcock might have done is hard to know. But it is hard to believe with the proliferation of cinemas, with film regularly appearing on TV that Kim Ki-Duk could really contrive never to watch a film for thirty years. Nevertheless, having seen his 'first ...
A girl and boy discover young love, family disagreements and pregnancy. Swedish dialogue with subtitles.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
PALISADES TARTAN; LACE GROUP; SONY DADC
Release date
28/10/2002
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
TVD 3394
Barcode
5023965339423
Languages
Main Language
Swedish
Subtitle Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
Star And Director Filmographies, Scene Selection, Philip Strick Film Notes, Stills Gallery, The Bergman Collection Trailer
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Dolby Digital
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital Swedish
DVD Description
SUMMER WITH MONIKA is an intense, sensual drama, adapted by Ingmar Bergman from a novel by Per Anders Fogelstrom. In an acclaimed, stellar performance, Harriet Andersson, on her way to becoming a Bergman regular, plays the fiery teenager Monika, and Lars Ekborg is Harry, a sensitive youth who becomes her lover. Together they escape to a remote island off the coast of Sweden, where they spend a carefree summer exploring nature and giving in to their own passionate instincts. When Monika finds herself pregnant, the young couple is forced to return to the city, where they settle down to a dull domestic life together, with the prospect of a bleak future in a drab working-class environment. The impulsive Monika soon decides she wants more out of life... Because of the occasionally erotic nature of the material (and Bergman's uninhibited rendering of it), prior to being released in America the movie was edited, retitled MONIKA: THE STORY OF A BAD GIRL, and marketed as a racy sexploitation film by its U.S. distributor, in turn earning the director the disapproval of those who considered the finished product obscene.
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