Summer Interlude

Summer Interlude Swedish Sommarlek is a 1951 Swedish drama film cowritten and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The film opened to highly positive reviews from critics.

Three days before the end of the summer when Henrik is to return to college and Marie to the theatre, Henrik falls and suffers injuries that result in his death after diving from a cliff face. Her Uncle Erland, not actually her relation but a friend and admirer of Maries mother and now similarly smitten with Marie, takes her away for the winter and helps her to put up a wall to lessen the pain of losing her lover and effectively close her off emotionally. While visiting Erlands house she discovers that it was he who sent the diary to her at the theatre he has had it ever since the day at the hospital when Henrik died from his injuries. She expresses regret and disgust that she ever allowed Erland to touch her, suggesting that he took advantage of her grief and they had an affair following Henriks death.Following the evening dress rehearsal, Marie talks with the ballet master, who recognises her single minded devotion to her dancing and understands her problems, and then to her current lover, a journalist called David, with whom she appears to be in the process of breaking up. Marie decides to let David read Henriks diary and then open up to him about her past experiences in order to explain her conflicted feelings and emotional coldness. After he has left, she removes her make up and as she does so regains some of her lost youth and innocence, smiling again and pulling faces in the mirror. The film concludes during the successful first performance where we see Marie meeting David, now more understanding of Maries past, in the wings. She happily kisses him and returns to the stage to finish the ballet. ........

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