#Naemi Briese

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Films Watched in 2024: 22. Skepp till India land/A Ship Bound for India (1947) - Dir. Ingmar Bergman

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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.

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

May 22nd 2022

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Skepp till India land (A Ship Bound for India) | Ingmar Bergman | 1947

Holger Löwenadler, Naemi Briese, Hjördis Petterson

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- I do care what you think. You’re the first person to be nice to me without wanting anything back. If I could fall in love with anyone, I’d fall in love with you. - You don’t realize what you’re saying. You’re crazy.  - I’m completely mad. Aren’t people allowed to be mad sometimes? - I’ve always been alone. Nobody has ever cared about me. - People shouldn’t be alone. You need someone to take care of. You need someone to love. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.

A Ship Bound for India (Skepp till India land), Ingmar Bergman (1947)

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3.16.19

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A Ship to India (Skepp till India land) (A Ship Bound for India) (1947) Ingmar Bergman

February 6th 2022