Daily Movie Rec 2/7/24
Summer Interlude (1951)
"I'd wonder if I was inside reality or outside it. Was everything around me - the piano, the floor - part of my imagination, while only the moonlight and the music were real and substantial?"
Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
Cinematography by: Gunnar Fischer
Country: Sweden
Plot:
Ageing ballerina Marie revisits old memories, still mourning the tragic loss of her first love as a teenager.
Reasons to watch:
One of Ingmar Bergman's first big splashes, the intermittently charming and somber Summer Interlude would net the Swedish filmmaking legend a Golden Lion nomination at the Venice Film Festival in 1952. The early-mid 50s were full of miniature cinematic revolutions that would lead to the big New Wave movements at the end of the decade, and Bergman's lyrical film grammar, playful innovation, and philosophical themes seemed to nudge the form forward with every release. In this early romantic drama, he continued establishing many of his soon-to-be trademarks, such as gloomy poetic monologues, crises of faith, the existential torment of identity, the impermanence of love and memory, and the crushing weight of the past and all those unfortunate souls caught in time's riptide, living in an ocean of regret, unwilling to let go - the pitfalls of the human condition.
Where to watch:
The Criterion Channel
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