Summer with Monika (1953) ⭐ 7.5 | Drama, Romance (original) (raw)
Original title: Sommaren med Monika
A pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.A pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.A pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.
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No masterpiece but essential nevertheless
He wasn't always the old glum maestro. Although the young lovers in "Summer with Monika" might have fitted quite easily into a British Kitchen Sink film, this early Bergman is less grim than we later came to expect and although minor, this film has much to admire; it actually reminded me a bit of "A Kind of Loving".
A young Harriet Andersson is Monika and Lars Ekborg is Harry, the boy who loves her enough to want to spend a lot longer than just the summer with her. You might say that for Bergman this is a very simple picture filled with very simple people but Bergman treats them with a fair degree of sympathy. Monika may be just a little tart or simply a young woman trapped in an early marriage while Harry is always seen as trying to do the decent thing and the ending, if not exactly upbeat, is less of a Bergman downer than usual. No masterpiece, then, but an essential part of the canon nevertheless.
- MOscarbradley
- Jul 4, 2017
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By what name was Summer with Monika (1953) officially released in Canada in French?