Smiles of A Summer Night (1955) [The Criterion Collection #237] [Full BluRay]

Posted By: Someonelse

Date: Aug. 17, 2011

After fifteen films that received mostly local acclaim, the 1955 comedy Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende) at last ushered in an international audience for Ingmar Bergman. In turn-of-the-century Sweden, four men and four women attempt to navigate the laws of attraction. During a weekend in the country, the women collude to force the men’s hands in matters of the heart, exposing their pretensions and insecurities along the way. Chock-full of flirtatious propositions and sharp witticisms delivered by such Swedish screen legends as Gunnar Björnstrand and Harriet Andersson, Smiles of a Summer Night is one of cinema’s great erotic comedies.
This Blu-ray debut includes an introduction by Bergman.

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In many ways, 'Smiles of a Summer Night' can be seen — and enjoyed — as Ingmar Bergman's true directorial debut. Although already a prolific filmmaker in Sweden, this silly comedy about romance is the motion picture that finally brought him into the limelight with international success. His earlier works were box-office bombs, and in all honesty, miserably downbeat works with some intriguing visual aspects, displaying promise and a keen, artistic eye. This was to be Bergman's last film with Svensk Filmindustri Productions, his one final shot at making a marketable picture. Thankfully, 'Smiles' was a sensation. And as Pauline Kael gleefully suggested in her review (and I'm heavily paraphrasing here), his previous efforts all lead him to this one moment when visual style and story finally meet in a harmonious union.

The plot, written by Bergman himself, is structured very much like a stage play, where space is only occupied by two or three characters at a time. This includes the framing of actors and camera placement. If a scene requires more people, we still only see two or three take turns dominating the frame. And like a stage comedy, the narrative feels episodic, moving from one situational set piece to another. The humor comes from the witty dialogue and the clever back-and-forth of characters, a capricious group of individuals caught in love's more fickle and impulsive characteristics. Love and relationships are treated like a game or competition between these people, an objective which can be strategically planned for. Or as Pat Benatar once sang, "Love is a Battlefield."

Demonstrating this play-acting aspect — and of course Bergman’s natural talent with expressive imagery — the director has our main protagonists, Fredrick (Gunnar Björnstrand) and Anne Egerman (Ulla Jacobsson), attend the theatre. When the curtains rise, indicating the show's about to begin, stage lights shine back on the married couple sitting in the proscenium arch, signaling to viewers the plot’s chief focus is only now commencing. The scene is also suggesting the theatricality of life itself — that fiction can function as a complement to reality. Or as it is more popularly understood, art imitates life and vice versa. Desiree Armfeldt (Eva Dahlbeck), who is the husband's former lover, is the show's star attraction, and the role affords her some choice words we later see play out as part of her own personality, again hinting at the blurred line between the stage and life.

Later, halfway into the story, like a kind of second act, the Egermans, along with Fredrick's son, the minister-to-be Henrik (Björn Bjelfvenstam), reunite with Desiree for a weekend getaway at her mother's country house. There, they meet another troubled couple in the Count (Jarl Kulle) and his wife, Charlotte (Margit Carlqvist). During dinner, Mrs. Armfeldt (Naima Wifstrand) sits at the table as if a very wise matriarch sharing her insight with the others lined on the opposite end. It's another exquisitely staged sequence from Bergman, indicating to audiences that despite their ages — Anne and Henrik are significantly younger than the rest — they are all children when it concerns matters of the heart. And while Desiree and Charlotte turn the weekend into a competitive game of love, their rewards are men of ultimately little worth.

On a deeper level, exhibiting once again Bergman's genius as a filmmaker, this motley troupe is also understood as representations of human behavior when in love. Men can be combative womanizers like the Count; ambivalent, foolishly assured husbands like Fredrick; or insecure, self-effacing wrecks as in Henrik. Women, on the other hand, are more complex with a variety of personalities. One can possess Mrs. Armfeldt's sensibleness and knowledge or act inexperienced and chaste like Anne. Then there's the young, free-spiritedness of Petra (Harriet Andersson), the bitterly jealous Charlotte, or the glamorously calculating Desiree. It's a story with a great deal of humor and intelligence, a remarkable motion picture from one of the most talented filmmakers ever.

'Smiles of a Summer Night' is a wickedly marvelous Swedish comedy that carries an equally engaging seriousness to the plot. It's not only one of Ingmar Bergman's more memorable and influential works, but it's also one which saved his career and made possible the future film endeavors we now love and admire.
M. Enois Duarte, High-Def Digest

Edition Details:
• Digital restoration with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Video introduction to the film by director Ingmar Bergman (3:53)
• Video conversation between Bergman scholar Peter Cowie and writer Jörn Donner, executive producer of Fanny and Alexander (16:51)
• Original theatrical trailer (2:01)

BluRay Info

DISC INFO:

Disc Title: SMILES_SUMMER_NIGHT
Disc Size: 38 904 006 490 bytes
Protection: AACS
BD-Java: Yes
BDInfo: 0.5.6

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Length: 1:49:24 (h:m:s)
Size: 32 073 277 440 bytes
Total Bitrate: 34,99 Mbps

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MPEG-4 AVC Video 32670 kbps 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1

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