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Summer with Monika (1953) dir. Ingmar Bergman

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Sommaren med Monika / Summer with Monika Ingmar Bergman. 1953

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Sommaren med Monika • Summer with Monika (1953)

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Summer With Monika (Ingmar Bergman, 1953)

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Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman, 1953).

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ansiktet, ingmar bergman 1958

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Summer with Monika (1953) | dir. Ingmar Bergman

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the landscape of summer with monika (1953) dir. ingmar bergman

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"Sommaren med Monika" (Summer with Monika) (1953) - Ingmar Bergman

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"Bröllopsbesvär" (1964) - Åke Falck

Films I've watched in 2023 (116/119)

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Un verano con Mónica (1953)

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This is Ingmar's 14th entry on the 2024 edition of the TSPDT list. He also had a re-entry in the 2023 edition when Shame re-charted. In the 2024 edition Shame moved up nine spots, from 860 to 851.

Harriet Andersson and Lars Ekborg in Summer with Monika (1953), directed by Ingmar Bergman. Ingmar now has 14 entries on the TSPDT 1,000 Greatest films list, with Persona ranked highest at 19.

My rating - an honorable mention to my best 1,001 movies, and Ingmar's first significant film.

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Summer with Monika, Ingmar Bergman

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Harriet Andersson and Lars Ekborg in "Summer with Monika"

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Pity the Child in Chess på svenska is so iconic. Freddie cries real tears on stage while the Most Bitching Guitar Solo In The History Of Chess plays over his anguish. I adore it.

(Plus, the guitarist is Lars-Ove "Lasse" Wallender, who was a guitarist for ABBA, and he also contributed iconic guitar parts to the concept album of Chess!)

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Harriet Andersson in Summer With Monika (Ingmar Bergman, 1953)

Cast: Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbeson, Åke Fridell, Naemi Briese, Åke Grönberg, Sigge Fürst. Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman, Per Anders Fogelström, based on a novel by Fogelström. Cinematography: Gunnar Fischer. Production design: P.A. Lundgren. Film editing: Tage Holmberg, Gösta Lewin. Music: Erik Nordgren.

This early Bergman film, coming before the trifecta of Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), The Seventh Seal (1957), and Wild Strawberries (1957) established his reputation as a director, got its first exposure in the United States in 1955 when an enterprising distributor purchased the rights, cut it by a third, and released it as Monika, the Story of a Bad Girl, with a publicity campaign centered on Harriet Andersson's nude scene. Swedish distributors were not above exploiting Andersson either, but Bergman's adaptation with Per Anders Fogelström of Fogelström's novel, is anything but a naughty sexcapade. It's a film about disaffected youth: Monika and Harry (Lars Ekborg) are in their late teens and trapped in boring jobs. Monika works at a produce store where she is sexually harassed by the male employees, and Harry, a packer and delivery boy in a store that deals in pottery and glassware, is constantly being scolded for being late and lazy. Harry wants to study to be an engineer, but he has to look after his father, who is an invalid. His mother died when he was 8, and he tells Monika that he has always felt alone. Monika is anything but alone: Her father is abusive and her mother barely tends to Monika's noisy young siblings. So when Harry's father goes into a hospital, Monika persuades Harry to run away with her. They steal his father's boat and sail away from Stockholm to the countryside, beautifully filmed by Gunnar Fischer. Their idyll is eventually cut short by their lack of money and Monika's pregnancy. The problem with the film is that a rather puritanical tone eventually seeps in, making Monika the focus of a moral condescension that Bergman would outgrow as his career progressed.